School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- When we want to make butter we first get the milk from the cow. We strain it into very clean well-scalded dairy utensils of either enamel or earthen-ware, in which it sours and thickens before we can churn it to make butter.
The churn we have is round and we have beaters in it. It is called a "cylinder- churn".
It holds about four gallons of cream. It is about two and a half feet high.
It takes from forty minutes to one hour to churn.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sheila Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Keadeen, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Joseph Byrne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 49
- Address
- Keadeen, Co. Wicklow