School: Tullycanna
- Location:
- Tullycanna, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Tomás de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 213
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- (continued from previous page)would take the butter. In the winter it takes longer to churn than the Summer.
I suppose it would take three quarters of an hour to churn. The churning is done by the hand.
There are different kinds of churns such as :-
Dash churn, end-over-end churn and the beater-churn.
The end-over-end churn is worked with the hand. They always pour hot water when churning.
There is no saying or proverb connected with churning that I know of only long ago the fairies used to take the butter. The buttermilk is used to make bread.
The dash-churn is worked with the dash by working it upwards and downwards. When the buttermilk is taken out the churn is washed with hot water and it should be scalded with hot water. The butter-milk should not be left in the churn long.
- Collector
- Mary Sinnott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodgraigue, Co. Wexford
