Devonshire Cream and Butter

Description

A dissertation on cream and butter making in an area of south Devon known as the South Hams. Research for the study was carried out during 1965, and involved enquiries through a local newspaper, visits to farms, a postal questionnaire sent to two hundred farmers in the area and the interviewing of informants identified through this process, personal experience and visits to traditional butter and cream making competitions organised by the Young Farmers Association. The study comprises sections on the local area (farming pattern, cattle, climate) and its history (Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, eighteenth century onwards), traditional and modern methods of cream making, butter making methods and butter shaping, the dairy and the butter well, the uses of cream and butter (eating and preservation). Two appendices provide results of the questionnaire, and recipes for tuffs, scones and junket. Photographs illustrate the cream and butter making processes, the techniques and implements employed, internal and external views of dairies and butter wells and a butter making and decorating competition.

Metadata

Identifier b16njfqt
IRN 410064
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/028
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/b16njfqt
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Holtom, Mary
Date 1966
Size and Medium 78 unbound typed leaves; 51 b/w photographs.

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