OLD FURNITURE 



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is for hot water only. Warming-pans of this class were as 

 often made of brass as of copper. 



Not many of the older implements of cookery, except 

 some of heavy brass or bronze that will be dealt with later, 

 remain to us. Nearly everything of the kettle and boiling- 

 pot class becomes worn out and is thrown 

 away. But one often finds things of the fork 

 and ladle kind, some of them evidently of 

 great antiquity, such as the iron fork and the 

 iron strainer, pierced with three crosses. The 

 latter may have belonged to one of the local 

 religious establishments, dependents of the 

 Abbey of Waverley. The brass ladle and 

 skimmer are of a later time. 



The iron skewers, with their original holder, 

 are of large size ; some of their heads form 

 close double volutes. 



The iron nut-crackers are big and heavy ; 

 they are ten inches long, and weigh a pound. 

 They also look as if they might have passed 

 round the table of the refectory. 



Copper 

 Warminu-Pan 



The sugar nippers are much more recent. 

 They were still in use within my recollection, when sugar 

 was bought in whole loaves and cut up at home. 



The iron snuffers and scissors of mediaeval pattern go 

 back again far into the past. 



