Believed to have been owned originally by Alice and Arthur Fisher who had a 16 acre property in Mullum Mullum Road, Ringwood. The house was called Greenhill and was located at the highest point, now no. 28. They had a mixed farm including an orchard of fruit and nut trees, and a dairy cow. Alice milked the cow much to the amusement of her English family, who delighted in visiting. When the property was sold the butter churn went to Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. Arthur Lunt, donor has memories of its use in Red Hill, where his parents had a mixed farm. That property was sold c. 1950, and the butter Churn returned to the Ringwood Croydon area where it has remained unused for the last 65 years.|The butter churn has been in Croydon and Ringwood since 1952; it is typical of manually operated equipment in use on small properties 100 years ago.Cylindrical container, brown, mounted on board with handle underneath. To one side is a wooden handle and drive gears to spin cylinder. Cylinder has tight fitting lid and makers metal label on the side; opposite side has direction arrow embossed. Mounted on wooden base. Cream was put into churn, handle turned to spin drum until butter was produced. Five parts to the Churn.SVENSKA STOCKHOLM SWEDEN CENTRIFUGA,B.DAHLIA N0:0 SLATER PATENTdomestic items, food preparation

Lidded wooden box with metal turning handle on outside. Inside has a curved bottom and a paddle wheel turned by the metal handle.E. Cherry - Maker - Gisborne Improved Patentdomestic items, food preparation

Solid square glass jar with metal top and gear wheel, wooden handle and wooden paddle.domestic items, food preparation, food technology, dairying

Lidded wooden box, curved at the bottom with a four blade wooden churn in it. This was turned by an exterior metal handle.Cherry + Sons Gisborne Vic.domestic items, food preparation

Piece of home churned butter was placed between the paddles and rolled into a ball for serving.Set of wooden butter pats, bat shaped, smooth on back - grooved on frontkitchen, food production, butter

Many butter churns were brought to Australia when people immigrated. German butter churns usually have the hand hold and the large gear in the same place, and are usually embossed on the base with the litre size. They usually came with a paper label and did not have embossing on the sides of the jar.large glass jar with lid-mounted geared churning mechanism with rotating paddle and wooden handle.Germany' pressed into lid, 'W 3' cast into inside of turning handle, '2 L.' embossed into bottom of glass containerfood technology, food processing, butter, milk, churn, kitchen, processing, germany, glass

Cast iron and tinplate whisk/mixer/butter churn with glass jar. Hand-cranked with wooden knob on handle.'Modelle Bepose'butter churns, whisks

Many butter churns were brought to Australia when people immigrated.A tall glass butter churn with a metal screw top lid, a metal handle to hold it steady and a turning mechanism on the top. There is a wooden paddle inside the churn which is rotated by a wooden handle attached to the mechanism on the top of the churn. German butter churns usually appeared like this.butter churns, churns, food processing equipment, butter, milk, kitchen equipmnet

Two wooden butter pats, one larger than the other. Flat, rectangular-shaped, grooved on one side. Wooden paddles used to work/shape butter after it had been churned.butter pats

Matching wooden butter pats. Flat, rectangular-shaped, grooved on one side. Wooden paddles used to work/shape butter after it had been churned.butter pats

Butter pats (also known as butter paddles, butter hands and butter workers) were widely used until the mid 20th century to form and shape butter that came out of butter churns.The butter pats are an example of an everyday domestic object that would have been an item in most farm households particularly the dairy farms of South-West Victoria.A pair of wooden butter pats with shaped handles. One side of the pat is covered with fine grooves the other side is flat.flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, warrnambool, domestic object, butter pats, butter making, butter paddles

Large lidded wooden box with metal turning handle on outside. Inside it has a curved bottom and a paddle wheel tuned by the metal handle.TIfood technology, dairying, rural industry, livestock

Butter pats were common from about 1850 - 1920. These wooden pats were used to shape the butter on a butter board into pieces, instead of by hand as the butter was soft. The freshly churned butter was pressed to remove the watery buttermilk and to distribute added salt though the butter. They were also sometimes called Scotch Hands.A vintage long pale wooden rectangular butter pat, with a shaped handle. It does not have ribs on one side.butter, butter pats, kitchen equipment, food preparation, domestic items, cooking equipment