Sieve for skimming cream off milk
Small hand-made brass sieve for skimming the cream off the milk when making butter. Shallow dish with many small holes and curved handle.
2012.87.1
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2012.84.1
Plunger butterchurn
Vertical plunger churn or `lanaid` for buttermaking in the late 1860s to 1950s. Cylindrical and made of wood bound with metal hoops, with wooden plunger rod and lid.
2011.29.1
Two scallop-shaped butter dish souvenirs from 1957
Two tin butter dishes in the shape of scallop shells bearing a blue badge showing the crofters stook, rake and pitch-fork emblam, and a red scroll beneath reading “Tiree”. Each has a white mica lining which was removed for washing. Souvenirs bought on the island in 1957. Also a letter from the donors.
2011.3.1
Glass butter churn made around 1900 with metal handle and turning mechanism, and replacement wooden paddle. Last used by Mairi Campbell in the 1950s to make butter in the winter when the cows produced much less milk. The original paddle rotted and the replacement made by John Fletcher, Balemartine, in 2010. Spare replacement paddle included.
2009.89.3
Digital scanned copy of newspaper cutting “A` Maistreadh” in Gaelic
Digital scanned copy of newspaper cutting in Gaelic entitled “A`Maistreadh” (At the churning) showing a photograph of a women hand-churning butter on Tiree. Photographed by George Holleyman during 1941-43.
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2009.89.4
Photocopy of newspaper article in Gaelic entitled “A` Maistreadh”
Photocopy of newspaper article in Gaelic entitled “A` Maistreadh” (at the churning), showing a photograph of a women hand-churning butter on Tiree. Photographed by George Holleyman in 1941-43.
2000.61.27
CD Pròiseact Thiriodh CD-SA1975-70.
Hector Kennedy of Kilkenneth talks about preserving food with salt, auctions at Whitehouse where the drams flowed freely, the first pub on the island at the Green, butter-making, tea, the local bards and Willie MacPhails’ relations.
2000.61.52
Mini-disk SA1975/70
Hector Kennedy of Kilkenneth talks about preserving food with salt, auctions at Whitehouse where the drams flowed freely, the first pub on the island at the Green, butter-making, tea, the local bards and Willie MacPhails’ relations.
2000.206.1
Audio cassette recording of Margaret Green of Mannal talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.
Margaret Green of Mannal talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about her childhood holidays in Mannal and playing with the other children on the shore, the people who lived in Mannal, the fishing boats and sharing the catch, fishing for sea-bream in June, her blind great-grandfather whose house was set on fire during the Clearances, a story about the curse put on the factor of the time, visiting relatives and friends, and returning to Glasgow laden with parcels of eggs, butter, cheese, potatoes and sometimes a chicken.
2000.240.1
Audio cassette recording of Margaret MacDonald of Cornaigmore talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.
Margaret MacDonald talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about buying ‘An Airigh’ in Cornaigmore in 1962 and using it as a holiday house until they took up permanent residence in 1981, the changes she’s seen in the shops, self-sufficiency, and crofting practices; Margaret also talks about how children today have less love of nature, how Mrs Campbell of Garaphail kept the Sabbath, the neighbouring croft that once belonged to novelist Alistair Maclean’s family and how milk was retailed in lemonade bottles.