butter churn

To take this healthy living to the next (and a bit messy) stage, I recently discovered a vintage glass butter churn (you can buy new ones) and decided to 'have a go'!

Miss Geddes said: "This year, we had a Bygone Era tent with a lot of kitchen stuff like a butter churn, a milk caddy and a cheese press.

I love you Charlottesville, and as Thomas Jefferson once said, who's that hot light-skinned girl over by the butter churn?"

Heritage features such as the former butter churn dairy and Victorian laundry will also be restored.

I had nine different milk strainers, various milk bottles and restaurant containers, as well as wooden cheese boxes, a 1-gallon home butter churn, two different milk pasteurizers, a hand-crank ice cream freezer and old metal 1-gallon ice cream buckets.

Demand for surface, form, and color continued with heated bidding for a miniature butter churn finished in a muted green paint for $1,100 and followed by an astounding $2,300 for a 9-hook cherry peg rack in its untouched, original state.

Dawson, a historian and author living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, tells the stories of 50 objects from museums that relate the history of Nova Scotia, such as a fossilized amphibian, a Mi'kmaw arrowhead, a beaver pelt and hat, a Zwicker Bible, a singing school music book, Quaker House shoes, a German butter churn, a gentleman's top hat, a letter book, bagpipes, Joseph Howe's printing press, antique French wallpaper, a ship's bell, a doll carriage, and the schooner Theresa E.

"At first we wondered if it was a butter churn or something allied to that.

Arabic users probably should've caught on, though -- the town's name was Shichwa, meaning "Butter Churn."

If you want to make larger amounts of butter or like the idea of using an old-fashioned butter churn, you can find a nice selection of such implements online at www.HomesteaderSupply.com.

Nicolas remembers spending hours cranking away at the butter churn as soon as he was big enough to manage it.