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The nearest general store or the mail order catalogue would have the necessary sewing notions. A Butterick pattern was 25 cents.

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Treadle Sewing Machine
1920's
Saskatchewan, Canada

Credits:
Assiniboia Museum

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Lot of the patching was done by hand or it could be done by a treadle sewing machine. There was adult clothing and most of the children's clothing was made at home. The cost of a treadle machine was $28.00.

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Butter Churn
1920's
Saskatchewan, Canada

Credits:
Assiniboia Museum

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Butter making happened whenever the homemaker had collected enough excess cream after personal use. This activity could happen anytime during the week. The butter churn would be brought from its storage and placed in the kitchen. Lots of time was spent with the dasher that agitated the cream to turn it into butter. This stone ware with dasher cost $1.10 up.

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Butter Making Interview

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Q:
There have been many changes to technology in the kitchen over the last century, affecting everything from how you clean dishes to how to prepare meals. One of the more apparent changes was in how you acquired a simple ingredient like butter. Give a brief breakdown on how butter was made.

Q:To make butter you had to save enough cream - 2 or 3 gallons which depended on the size of your churn. You would churn the cream until the butter was formed. Then you would drain the butter milk. The butter had to be washed three or four times in very cold water then salt it. You could put the excess butter into a butter form that made a pound (500 grams). Then wrap it in butter paper then bring to the grocery store to trade or sell for groceries.

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Improved Butter Churn
1920's
Saskatchewan, Canada

Credits:
Assiniboia Museum

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"In 1877 Dane Gustav de Laval invented the mechanical cream separator which great expedited butter production". p. 20 Hospitality December 1999.
There were many butter churn inventions. This one operated by the handle causing the barrel to rotate. Cost was $10.95.

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Foot Operated Butter Churn

Credits:
Assiniboia Museum

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This butter churn could be operated by foot pedal allowing freed hands to be active on another project. Children often helped.

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Homemade Butter Churn
1920's
Saskatchewan, Canada

Credits:
Adrienne Delorme

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This Quebec homemade churn is of wood and tin with wooden paddles used for smaller quantity of cream. It originally had a cover.

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Butter Making Accessories
1920's
Saskatchewan, Canada

Credits:
Assiniboia Museum