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| Cheeses drying in Flotta, 1945 |
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| A woman using a plout kirn, Birsay. |
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| Butter making class with Miss Boyd, Burray |
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| Woman. making butter, Birsay |
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| Cheese and butter making class at Grimness school, South Ronaldsay. |
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| A plethora of cheeses |
Friday, 1 June 2018
Cheesey Does It
It is, as I am sure you are all aware, World Milk Day today. Up here, the supermarkets stock delicious local milks, creams and cheeses and the staff here are eager to support our local dairy and farmers. Why, only today, we forced down several tubs of local ice-cream in various flavours. 'Twas our citizenly duty and a tribute to World Milk Day...and it was hot... and ice-cream is quite nice...
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Hunh. I missed World Milk Day. Being somewhat lactose-intolerant, it's probably just as well. But I love cheese, and your post is a pretty one. I'm curious, is "plout" another word for butter? In the 2nd photo above, the caption says "A woman using a plout kirn, Birsay." Over here on this side of the Pond, the device she's using is called a butter churn.
ReplyDeleteThat's really interesting. Thanks for the feedback. I may have to find a way to work "plout" into a conversation around here! It's a great word. So the photo shows a cream kirn, since it's narrower at the top than the bottom. I'm not sure what was churned in the churns here--whether it was milk, cream, or both. But most of them were of this shape.
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