Baking Utensils

Description and Uses

1. Dutch Oven: A heavy iron pot or kettle on feet, used for roasting or baking at the hearth; set above coals and with coals placed on lid to provide more heat.
2. Fire-shovel: "The instrument with which the hot coals are thrown up in kitchens." (Johnson)
3. Oven: "Arched cavity heated with fire to bake bread." (Johnson)
4. Peel: A broad thin board with a long handle used to put bread in and out of the oven.

Pictures

1. For Images of Peels, Please See Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings, and Their Gardens p263

Source: Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings, and Their Gardens p249-282 (See Bibliography