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A wooden circular box with a square opening on top and a handle on one end which you turned to churn the milk into butter.

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A Butter Churn

A hand churn for making butter, that was a wooden circular box with a square opening on top and a central handle for turning the contents. Turning the handle for a couple of hours would be a job for the children.

Photograph © 2006 Carol Haynes