Spray Plantation, Near the St. Mary's River, Maryland, l661
Making Butter with a Butter Churn

 

      Cream is skimmed off fresh milk and poured in the churn. The dasher in the churn is plunged up and down. After an hour or two, the butter starts to form into lumps that stick to the dasher.

Dasher

 
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Sue Freienmuth for Montgomery County Public Schools, MD, Oct. 25, 2000