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Furness Dialect Dictionary

in’t buttery

in the dairy
  • buttery - dairy
  • beeast milk - the milk of a newly calved cow, used for custard puddings
  • strûppins - the last of the milk drawn from a cow
  • fleet - to skim milk
  • sîle - to strain, applied to milk
  • keslop - rennet; a calf's fourth stomach used for curdling milk
  • cruddle - to curdle
  • lopper - to curdle; coagulate
  • cruds - curds
  • brûk - to curdle; to turn from cream to butter
  • brûkin kettle - used in cheese making
  • chessels (cheese-wells) - cheese rims, wooden cylindrical moulds, hooped, without ends, in which cheeses are made
  • scram - the rind of cheese
  • creeam - cream
  • creeam stick - stick used for stirring cream, generally of rowan wood

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