School: Finternagh
- Location:
- Finternagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Ní Bhuachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 269
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- I have a churn at home. It is three feet high. It is six years old.
When my mother is ready to churn, she pours the cream into the churn. Then she puts the churn dash into the churn and she puts the lid on it. The churning is done in an hour.
Then my mother washed her hands with boiling water first. She washes them with cold water so that the butter would not stick to them. She takes the butter out of the churn with her hands.| She washes it with cold water. She puts salt on it. She makes it into pound rolls. She puts it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maisie Gray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fartadreen, Co. Cavan
