Wooden Butter Churn, Wooden Butter Churn, butter pats and glass covered dish

Historical information

Local orchardists generally had their own cow and were milked daily. They would seperate the cream from the milk in a seperator and then churn the cream that had not been used into butter using the butter churn The butter pats were then used to roll the butter into small balls or cylindrical shapes called bats.

Physical description

Wooden butter churn and internal photo
Wooden butter pats

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