We display a traditional household device which was used to convert cream into butter. This subject of our collection is a typical plunger-type butter churn made and used by a family in Tiszafüred at the end of the 19th and in the first past of the 20th centuries.

It has 4 parts: the lower chamber, the upper chamber, the rod (the plunger) and the plate. All were made of soft wood (pine).

When someone wants to make butter first pour the cream into the lower chamber of the butter curn, then insert the plunger and then fit the upper part. This upper part has a lid with a hole and it guides the plunger. Then move the plunger up and down quite energetically in the lower part of the butter curn. Then you can feel a change in the liquid caused by the fat solids beginning to separate. Then you can remove the upper part of the churn and the plunger, then spoon out the butter.

Translated by Vadász, István