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School: Sonna (roll number 1422)

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Kildallan, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mrs O' Connell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 248

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 248

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    all the year round. No strangers ever help at the churning. The churn is turned with a handle. When the glass that is in the lid of the churn is clear of buttermilk and when specks of butter appear on the glass the butter is made. The churn must heated with hot water in the winter before the cream is put in. Water is sometimes poured during the churning to rise the temperature of the cream. When the butter is made and the butter milk is taken out of the churn water is poured in to take a the remaining buttermilk out of the butter.
    Next the butter is salted and after a while it is washed so that the salt will come out. Next it is lifted out on a dish. The water is squeezed out of it. Then it is made into pounds for sale for the house. The butter-milk is used in the making of bread.
    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
    Joseph Nangle
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Occupation
    Schoolboy
    Address
    Sonna Demesne, Co. Westmeath