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Kitchen Antiques

Historic kitchen equipment, culinary objects

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>>Museum collections of culinary objects     >>Fireplace cooking, cast iron     >>18th and/or 19th century kitchen items     >>Early 20th and/or 19th century     >>Before and miscellaneous
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Old or historic kitchen utensils become past various different names from "culinary antiques" to "vintage kitchenalia". Whether they're ancient or mid-20th century "retro", almost all erstwhile food preparation, serving, and storage items appeal to some collector somewhere.

Many objects are easy to place, but non all. It's not always clear if a simple box or pot or implement had a particular name or a item use. A collection of jars (earthenware, stoneware, drinking glass in the 20th century) and boxes (wooden, tin) was needed when nutrient was stored at abode and groceries were sold unwrapped. Households had unlike beaters, paddles, and bats - some of them known as beetles - for purposes from tenderising meat to working butter to beating the dirt out of dress. Unproblematic wooden boards, stirring sticks, and large spoons had a wide range of uses. As information technology says in the article about pudding sticks linked below, "The virtually plebeian of kitchen tools are sometimes the hardest to identify."Lower downward the folio are excerpts from 19th century housekeeping advice manuals to give some idea of "normal" kitchen equipment so, in the UK and the USA.

Sometimes kitchen collectibles are categorised according to what they are made of. Wood (treen), tinware, copper, stoneware etc. Some of the less well-known materials include tôle or toleware - painted can-plated sheet-iron - and American Agate Ware and Graniteware. (Meet commencement link in resource list) In the kitchen these last two describe detail kinds of enamelware, with a terminate resembling agate or granite, although both names can refer to ceramics too.

Online resources about antique, historic, or old kitchen and nutrient utensils

Museums and museum-similar collections with a range of different culinary objects

• Food preparation in 19th century The states - from cerise pitter to vinegar measure
• Victorian kitchen and tabular array tools
• Kitchen equipment from Wales - from a medieval "lime-powered" cooking pot to carved apple scoops
• Household tools and equipment from New York Historical Order's online folk fine art collection - includes sausage grinder, spoon stand, and pie crimper
• New England - type "kitchen" in search box for 19th century collection including toasting iron, pot hooks, bean pot
• Cook's tools at the Belgian Museum for Sometime Techniques
• Culinary objects at the Gourmet Museum nigh Liège
• Domestic equipment - Australian collection with food and drink categories to explore
• Mostly Victorian kitchen things - pastry jigger, food chopper etc. - and a few Tudor food- and drink-related items.
• Treen (wooden) food-related items - from c1700 on
• Treen drink-related items - from c1600 on
• Employ search-term 'culinary' at Five & A collection for lots of cutlery - likewise come across their Dutch cabinet kitchen, late 17th C
• Culinary objects - a cross-cultural collection The Rietz Collection of Food Engineering
• Museum of London - multifariousness of culinary objects - Search folio
• Food, eating and drinking - wide range of images
• British culinary equipment - from different periods

Fireplace cooking and cast fe

• Spits, spit-jacks, bottle-jacks - roasting meat over a burn down
• More roasting equipment - spit engine, clock jack, smoke jack
• Cooking equipment at Fort Scott, Kansas, mid-1800s
• Bandage atomic number 26 cookware - waffle irons, wafer irons, skillets and more
• Frying pans
• 1812 wafer iron
• Griswold cast iron

Other 18th and/or 19th century food training and storage items

• Jelly moulds/molds, cake and pie moulds, and many other culinary moulds/molds
• Hanging salt box - 1797
• Russian salt cellars - salt thrones/chairs
• Apple corers - from late 17th century on
• Earthenware - storage jars, pitchers etc. from Virginia, Tennessee and nearby
• Redware - American red earthenware

By and large early 20th and/or 19th century

• 1902 Appliances/Kitchen Department from Sears & Roebuck Catalog
• Domestic life and household management - 247 images including vintage electric and mechanical kitchen items
• Late 19th century kitchen gadgets from Canada - apple parer, egg beater, can opener
• Pyrex
• Collecting kitchenalia
• Aluminumware (aluminium)
• Orange squeezers, reamers, juicers
• Egg coddlers
• Kitchen utensils from 1940s United states
• Baking - mid-20th century
• Cornish ware includes stamps and dating
• Guardian Service cookware
• Kitchen utensils in 20th century England - oral history
• 20th century kitchen collectibles - cookie jars etc. - no dates
• Pie birds and pie funnels
• Kerala, India - wooden kitchen equipment

Before and miscellaneous culinary objects

• Drinking and serving vessels - England, approx. 1000-1600
• The Tudor kitchen
• Cooking equipment in medieval France
• Renaissance kitchen equipment
• Roman culinary objects
• Links to medieval images - scroll down to Gastronomical Textile Culture
• Traditional Indian kitchenware
• Cutlery of different eras
• Chafing dishes
• Pudding sticks - mush sticks
• Porridge spurtle - non so dissimilar from the pudding sticks
• Nutmeg graters
• Rolling pivot
• Tea kettles

Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table: Wooden Objects Relating to Eating and Drinking, from Amazon.com or Amazon UK

Kitchen and food-related articles on this site:

• Baking over an open fire: bannocks and flat breads
• Baking peels and paddles
• Beer warmers, ale mullers
• Butter churns
• Butter crocks
• Bread ovens shared by a community
• Enamel kitchenware history
• Game pie dishes
• Hasteners and meat screens
• Nutcrackers
• Pottery - earthenware
• Pressure cookers
• Roasting jacks and string roasting methods
• Sugar nippers
• Tureens shaped like poultry

Articles on antique culinary objects at HomeThingsPast.com, our companion site

• Links to articles almost things used for cooking, dining, drinks etc.
• Follow-up page, more culinary manufactures, for case:
• Spoon warmers, salt boxes, tea caddies, rotary egg beaters, vintage icebox.

Communication on equipping a kitchen in the 19th century

Catherine Beecher had house ideas about what was needed for a well-run household. Her list for the 1840s kitchen in the USA included:

Tin can Ware
...breadstuff pans, big and modest pattypans, cake pans, with a center tube to ensure their baking well, pie dishes, (of block can,) a covered butter kettle, covered kettles to agree berries, two saucepans, a large oil tin, (with a erect,) a lamp filler, a lantern, broad bottomed candlesticks for the kitchen, a candle box, a funnel or tunnel, a reflector, for baking warm cakes, an oven or tin kitchen, an apple corer, an apple roaster, an egg banality, two saccharide scoops, and flour and meal scoop, a prepare of mugs, three dippers, a pint, quart, and a gallon measure, a set of scales and weights, iii or four pails, painted on the outside, a slop bucket, with a tight comprehend, painted on the outside, a milk strainer, a gravy strainer, a colander, a dredging box, a pepperbox, a big and pocket-sized grater, a box, in which to keep cheese, also a big one for cake, and a yet larger 1 for staff of life, with tight covers.

Wooden Ware
...a nest of tubs, a set of pails and bowls, a large and modest sieve, a beetle for mashing potatoes, a spad or stick for stirring butter and sugar, a breadboard, for moulding bread and making pie crust, a java stick, a clothes stick, and mush stick, and meat beetle to pound tough meat, an eggbeater, a ladle for working butter, a bread trough, (for a large family,) flour buckets, with lids to hold sifted flour and Indian repast, table salt boxes, carbohydrate boxes, starch and indigo boxes, spice boxes...

In a prosperous American household in 1871 a "prudent and generous mistress" would supply her melt "with aplenty provision of all such things as her important department requires..."

...such equally tables, shelves, closets, pasteboards [pastry boards], sieves, tubs, pails, rolling-pins, trays, pots, pans, colanders, strainers, skimmers, a saw, hatchet, cleaver, scissors, mallet, sausage-grinder and stuffer, coffee-toaster, coffee-manufacturing plant, tea-kettles, pots, mortar and pestles, soap, candles, ovens or a commencement-rate stove or range, tin can blistering-pans, furnaces, bong-metallic [alloy of copper and tin can] kettles, porcelain kettles and stew-pans, towels, boiling-cloths [pudding cloths], bread-towels, dish-cloths, salt, pepper, spices, etc., spice-mills, egg-beaters, strainers, ladles and flesh-fork [for lifting meat from a pot], bread-toasters, knives and forks, spoons, skewers, aprons, a kitchen clock, etc. All these articles are indispensable, and there are a swell many other useful implements which modern ingenuity has brought into use, and which information technology would be well to innovate into a fully-arranged kitchen.
(Mary Ann Bryan Stonemason)

A book aimed at an English couple setting upward home in a pocket-size cottage in the first half of the 19th century advised:

A good copper tea-kettle is the most durable (this is an article I don't know how to persuade you to do without, though some writers cry out bitterly against it). The round shape will exist 2 or three shillings cheaper than the oval, and bears mending better. It is not quite so fashionable, but that you accept likewise much adept sense to heed. The beauty of a copper kettle is in its durability and brightness, non its shape; and the ii or 3 shillings saved will purchase you a handy little saucepan, or gridiron, or frying-pan: these two terminal manufactures, no thing how seldom they are used, notwithstanding most people like to accept such things in their house.
You should have two strong iron pots, of different sizes; i or other of which, I promise, will be in frequent employ. I would wish a working man to have a bit of something hot most days. 1 pot might do, but not then well, for this reason, you cannot boil anything big in a small pot; and though you might boil what is small in a large one, in that location would, by so doing, be more firing and fourth dimension taken up than is necessary. For any very dainty, particular purpose, such as boiling milk, starch, or gruel, there is nix answers meliorate than bell-metal or brass, which also lasts long.
A Nottingham-ware [brown stoneware] pot, with a chapeau, to hold a gallon or two, is very useful; peculiarly if yous have an oven: information technology does well to brand a stew or soup, on which I shall requite you lot a hint before long.
(Esther Copley)

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