Good Morning Darlings!
Remember that thing I posted last week?
You all came up with some very creative guesses!
It’s a Sugar Cutter
Until Victorian inventors figured out a way to get sugar to the grocer’s shop in ready-to-use granulated form, it was always transported in large cone-shaped sugar loaves. Households could buy a whole sugar loaf or a lump broken off and sold by weight. But then what? How did people prepare it for kitchen and dining table? Sugar nippers were an important part of the answer.
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Sugar Cutter or Nipper
Sugar nippers were basic household tools, but before using them you would probably cut the hard whitish cone into smaller chunks with a hammer and chisel. The nippers were sometimes on a stand (like in our picture) so you could put all your strength into forcing the cutting blades through the pieces of sugar-loaf. If they had no stand, the better ones had a piece that stuck out at right angles, and was used to steady the sugar nippers against the edge of the kitchen table, while you gripped and squeezed.
I can’t believe I stumped you!
xoxo, Patti
Today blogging to the Sugar Cubes – Hit
I am learning so many things reading this blog!!
Sweetie!
I love my little Clint!
xoxo
P