gnostek1 / 7A barrel-type butter churn
- 01Producing one pound of butter required approximately 40 minutes of continuous up-and-down plunging by hand.
- 02Children were routinely assigned churning duty in American farm households through the early 20th century.
- 03The dash churn, a vertical tube with a plunging rod, was the dominant design from 1700 to 1900.