Mrs Ludlow demonstrates how to make butter in 1922
Photograph of Mrs Ludlow demonstrating how to make butter at the Tiree Agricultural Show in Scarinish in 1922.
Courtesy of Mrs Rachel Wylie
Butter was made on Tiree by first skimming the cream off fresh milk that had stood for twenty-four hours. The cream was usually collected over several days, by which time it had fermented. This produced a fuller flavour. The cream was then churned until it separated into butter and buttermilk.
Plunge churns were popular on Tiree in the 19th century. These are tall barrels with a plunger, at the end of which is a wooden disk with holes drilled in it. Towards the end of the century they were superseded by patent barrel churns, which were turned round with a handle.
Butter was usually preserved with salt and was known in Gaelic as ‘ìm saillte’. It was stored in an earthenware jar called a ‘pige’. Homemade butter, patted into shape, was exhibited at Tiree Agricultural Shows until the 1950s.
Laser print of a black and white photograph of Mrs Ludlow at the Tiree Show in Scarinish in 1922.
Mrs Ludlow demonstrating how to make butter at the Tiree Show in Scarinish in 1922. (From Myra Lamont’s photograph album of the 1920s.)
Laser print of a black and white photograph of the Tiree Show in Scarinish in 1922.
The Tiree Show in Scarinish in 1922. (From Myra Lamont’s photograph album of the 1920s.)
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band at the Tobermory Games in 1966.
The Tiree Pipe Band at the Tobermory Games in 1966. L-R: (back row) Colin Brown, Neil MacPhail, L. MacFadyen, (front row) vet Robert Beck, Hugh MacLean, Hector J. C. Campbell.
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band arriving at the Tobermory Games in 1966.
The Tiree Pipe Band arriving at the Tobermory Games in 1966.
Newspaper cutting about the 1972 Tiree Agricultural Show.
Description of the 1972 Tiree Agricultural Show with photographs and prize list.
Newspaper cutting about the 1975 Tiree Agricultural Show.
Photographs of the 1975 Tiree Agricultural Show.
Leaflet for the Coll Show 2003.
Leaflet for the 82nd Coll Agricultural and Horticultural Show held in Aringour on 1/8/2003.
‘Best Pet’ competition
Photograph of the ‘Best Pet’ competition at an Agricultural Show in the mid-1970s.
Courtesy of Mrs Maggie Campbell
Best pet competition at the Tiree Agricultural Show around 1975. Left to right are Margaret Cameron of Balevullin, Donnie MacInnes of Ruaig, a visitor, Helen Petrie from the Scarinish Hotel and Alasdair Campbell of Kilmoluaig with Queen.
Black and white photograph of Agricultural Show in 1975.
Best pet competition at the Tiree Agricultural Show around 1975. L-R: Margaret Cameron, Balevullin; Donnie MacInnes, Ruaig; visitor; Alison Petrie, Scarinish Hotel; Alasdair Campbell, Kilmoluaig with Queen.
Colour photograph of the 1997 Tiree regatta.
John MacKinnon (Iain Aonghais) of Kilmoluaig on the right, taken outside Scarinish harbour during the 1997 Tiree regatta.
Colour photograph of the 1997 Tiree regatta.
John MacKinnon (Iain Aonghais) of Kilmoluaig on the right, during the 1997 Tiree regatta.
