Buttermaking: Churning

Mrs. M. E. Scott churning cream into butter after separating it from the milk using a wooden butter churn, at her home in West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The cream is being churned in an upright wooden churn with a holed lid, into which a staff is inserted. The staff is vigorously worked up and down until the butter comes. Upright churns were a part of the traditional dairying equipment found in a Dales kitchen. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1485. Card 2 in a series of 13.

Originally held in Photo File: Buttermaking.