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Buttermaking: Rolling Butter
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
Summer 1963
Mrs. M. E. Scott rolling butter, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The butter is rolled with both hands on a wooden board in order to get all the air out, and to make a close texture. Mounted...
Cheesemaking: Cheese Bandages
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1963
Mrs. M. E. Scott lifting pressed and pickled curd out of a bowl of brine in preparation for sewing calico bandages around it in order to preserve its shape, at her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). ...
Cheesemaking: Finished Cheeses
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1963
Finished cheeses, dressed in calico bandages, and held in the home of Mrs. M. E. Scott, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The cheeses will be turned every day until ready. Mounted on Photo File card. With...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
[1960s]
[Collector announcement]; Clara Bell, recorded in Askrigg; describes her traditional domestic method of making Wensleydale cheese; Dick Chapman (also of Askrigg) asks her about various aspects of chee...
Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1963
Mrs. M. E. Scott preparing to place an egg into strong pickle, or brine, to test its strength, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). If the brine is the correct strength, the egg will float in it...
Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1963
Mrs. M. E. Scott placing an egg into strong pickle, or brine, to test its strength, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The egg is floating, which indicates that the brine is the correct streng...
Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1963
Pressed curds pickling in bowls of strong brine (pickle) in the home of Mrs. M. E. Scott, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The curd will be left in this strong pickle for two or three days. Mrs. Scott po...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Welwick, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
14 Apr 1955
[Side 1] Madge describes how to make butter, 'ken' [= churn] cream, warm overnight in front of fire, add cold water, ken again to remove buttermilk, place on board to add salt, weigh into pounds and w...
Gloucestershire Cheese Making
Blackburn, Hilary Faith
1972
A study of cheese making in Gloucestershire. Six chapters cover a brief history of cheese making in the county, a description of Gloucestershire cheeses, cheese-making equipment, how Double Gloucester...
Butter Churns
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
September 1967
Two clay butter churns on a stone wall in Low Row ( Swaledale). The churns are of the type most generally used for buttermaking in the Dales, with a long handle which was worked rapidly up and down un...
Butter Churns
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
September 1967
Two clay butter churns on a low stone wall outside a house in Low Row ( Swaledale). The churns are of the type most generally used for buttermaking in the Dales, with a long handle which was worked ra...
Yoke and Wooden Bucket
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
1967
Wooden yoke, bucket and lidded jug, used for collecting milk for buttermaking, Holgate Farm, Hurst Moor ( Arkengarthdale). The bucket and jug both have handles by which they can be carried either by h...