Background on Colonial Kitchen Utensils

The Utensils Discussed are Meant as Examples, Not Exhaustive!

What Each Technique Requires (Colonial Kitchens and Country Cooking)

Cooking

  1. Back
  2. Basin
  3. Basinet
  4. Bowl
  5. Butter Churner
  6. Chopping Knife
  7. Earthenware
  8. Fuel
  9. Gib-croke or gib-crook
  10. Mortar
  11. Pail
  12. Pewter
  13. Posnet
  14. Pot-brake, pot-crook, pot-hook
  15. Prong
  16. Redware and Stoneware
  17. Salamander
  18. Sauce-pan
  19. Skillet
  20. Thibble or thible
  21. Trammel

Baking

  1. Dutch Oven
  2. Fire-shovel
  3. Oven
  4. Peel

Boiling and Stewing

  1. Chaffern or Chafing Dish
  2. Flesh-fork
  3. Pot
  4. Sauce-pan

Roasting

  1. Bird-spit
  2. Dutch Oven
  3. Spit
  4. Ring-Top Andirons/Standard Irons/Cobiron/Creepers/American Andirons

Grilling/Broiling

  1. Gridiron

Frying

  1. Frying Pan
  2. Griddle

Serving

  1. Board
  2. Jug
  3. Maeser
  4. Mug
  5. Noggin
  6. Platter
  7. Porringer
  8. Forks, Knives, Spoons

Cleaning

  1. Besom
  2. Birch Broom
  3. Mop

Sources: Country Cooking: Recipes and Utensils from Rural America p32 and Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings, and Their Gardens p249-282 (See Bibliography)

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