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Object Name |
Paddle, Butter |
Caption |
Wooden butter paddle |
Description |
Wooden butter paddle. Handmade. Originally had a leather strap through the hole in the handle for hanging. Used to work butter in a wooden bowl into a form. One of the simplest ways to mold butter was to just use butter spades to work the buttermilk out of the butter. One could form the butter into the desired shape after working the buttermilk out. There was no mold, the butter was just free formed into a shape. Then a butter stamp could be used to imprint a design on the butter. It is likely that many carved plungers from butter molds were turned into stamps after the mold case broke |
Catalog Number |
1985-2750-001 |
Search Terms |
Butter paddles |
Subjects |
Butter making Food preparation |