SC - Butter churns

[Alma Johnson]

>dear lady can you describe these crocks, please...shape, etc
>
>my thanks
>
>Dragonfyr


Ooh, description.  Depends on the capaciity, to some degree.  I will
describe a large one, and make it more squat looking for the churns of
smaller capacity. Tall pottery jar with two handles, smaller at base,
flaring wider toward the top, and then back smaller at the top, with an
internal lip to hold a lid.  The lid (Some come with a ceramic lid) has a
hole in it for the dasher handle.  If you have the first foxfire book, mine
looks just like the one in the photo of the old lady churning in her
kitchen.  That's probably a 5 gallon one like mine in the picture, and mine
is the only one I saw today made of the local red clay with a brown glaze.
Mine stands about 17" high and has a circumference about the widest part of
36".  Churns, as you can imagine, don't move off the shelves like they used
to, but the gentleman at the pottery assured me that they carry a few at all
times.  I'm not certain how long it will take for them to get in another 5
gal, but they are all nice.  Some don't come with a lid, which is only there
to protect you from splashing the clabbered milk all over, but a round of
wood with a hole in the middle will work, and dashers are just a dowel
handle with 2 crossed pieces of wood on the end for agitation.

Hope this helps.

Rhiannon Cathaoir-mor
Who wil probably sit her churn next to the computer - type with the right
hand, churn with the left!

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