Churn
Lutz Moutain Heritage Museum
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| Object Name: | Churn |
| Object Type: | Butter |
| Category: | Tools and Equipment for Materials |
| Sub-category: | Food Processing Tools & Equipment |
| Discipline: | Culture, Material |
| Material: | Wood Metal, steel |
| Accession Number: | 976.2.2 A, B, C |
| Origin-Country: | Canada |
| Use-Province: | New Brunswick |
| Use-Country: | Canada |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1900 circa |
| Description: | A - This is a wooden churn with metal bands - top rim, centre and bottom rim. B - Lid of wood with centre hole for the dasher. C - Wooden dasher made of two pieces of wood crossed, with large notches at each end, and a pole attached. |
| Narrative: | This churn dates back to the early 1900's and was used to make butter on the farm of Mrs. Muriel (Lutes) Sikorski's father, Fred Lutes. Butter was made by the use of sweet cream put in churn and the action of the dasher moving up and down would turn the cream to butter. The liquid left would be buttermilk. The butter would be washed with cold water and salt would be worked into the butter. Sometimes yellow food colouring would be added but otherwise the butter would be pale in colour. |
| Height: | 139 |
| Outside Diameter: | 33,1 |
| Unit-Linear: | cm |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Number of Components: | 3 |
| Component Part Names: | cover Churn dasher |
| Institution: | Lutz Moutain Heritage Museum |
| Institution City: | Moncton |
| Institution Province: | New Brunswick |
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