Dialect recording in East Haddon, Northamptonshire

Description

[Side 1] Mr Ward talks about killing pig, explains importance of fasting pig beforehand, comments new restrictions mean only butcher now allowed to slaughter pig, stresses need for care to ensure no damage to meat, explains noose secured round top jaw on 'tushes' [= back teeth], 'humane killer' [= instrument used to slaughter animal painlessly] used to kill pig before butcher sticks pig in throat. [Side 2] Mr Ward talks about killing pig, stresses importance of bleeding pig thoroughly, discusses difference between singeing and scalding pig, place pig on 'cratch' [= bench for dressing pig] to scrape singed hair off, turn pig on back and split down middle to remove 'chitterlings' [= intestines] and 'leaf' [= fat round pig's kidney], hang leaf up and render down to make lard, wash pig to remove blood and hang to dry for 12 hours, remove 'pluck' [= heart/liver/lungs]. Continued at 1LL0015115 S1.

Metadata

Identifier vz8sx54n
IRN 726753
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/2/D381
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vz8sx54n
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)
Creator(s) Smart, Jeanette
Date 28 Mar 1951
Size and Medium [Side 1] 03 min. 57 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 07 sec.

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