Butter Making (1940-1949)

British Instructional Films presents a Classroom Film. Cows wander in a field. A woman encourages them into the milking shed. Man sits and milks a cow. C/U of his hands. Milk is poured from a churn. C/U of woman’s face - she is wearing an apron and cap. C/U of the fat being skimmed off the top of the milk into a bucket. The “plunger churn“ is demonstrated. Woman shows different parts of the churn to the camera. She then demonstrates the plunging technique for churning butter using this device. She is wearing clogs. Clock reads 12 o’clock. She churns away. Clock reads twenty past twelve. Woman pulls curds from the churn to show camera then tips the contents of the churn into a bucket through a piece of muslin. She then lifts this into another bucket where it is washed through the muslin. The curds are then pressed between two boards. The muslin is taken off and two wooden paddles are used to shape the butter into pats. An “end-over-end churn“ is demonstrated. This is a larger churn