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School: Kilskeer (B.) (roll number 1421)

Location:
Kilskeer, Co. Meath
Teachers:
Máirtín Ó Loingsigh R. Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0704, Page 368

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    taken off but the butter-milk is left in the churn. Before they take off the butter, they was their hands in oaten meal. Then they take it up with their hands.
    The butter-milk is used for baking bread, drinking it, for putting it on porriage and making whey. Whey is a drink made of buttermilk and sugar. It is a very good drink when you have a cold. Not many make it now adays, but in olden times they would make it after every churning they would have.
    The dash churns were the first made.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Hugh Smyth
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Johnstown, Co. Meath