CREAM SEPARATING

exhibition number: Dairy 8

Cream was separated from milk and was normally made into butter.

Butter is made from cream which had been collected over a number of days. The cream was skimmed off the milk with a shallow wood or metal saucer called a skimmer from a shallow dish or or allowed to rise in a large slate or lead pan from which the skimmed milk could be drained off. The invention of the mechanical cream separator early in this century eliminated hand skimming. The skimmed milk was generally fed to the pigs, but in poor areas such as Ceredigion, it was used for cheese making.

A-Z DAIRY

BUTTER CHURNING

CREAM SEPARATING PAN

LEAD CREAM-SEPARATING PAN

CREAM SKIMMER

CREAM SEPARATOR

CROCKS

DAIRY SIEVE HOLDER

CROCK LID MADE OF SLATE

CREAM STIRER|	CREAM SEPARATING PAN| no 8
CREAM SKIMMER|	CREAM SKIMMER|
LEAD CREAM-SEPARATING PAN| no 11	CREAM SEPARATOR|
CROCK|	CROCK|
CROCK|	SLATE CREAM-SEPARATING PAN|
CREAM SEPARATING PAN STOPPER 2|	CREAM SEPARATING PAN STOPPER 3|
CREAM SEPARATING PAN STOPPER|	DAIRY LADLE|
CREAM SEPARATING PAN| no 8	CHEESE PAN|