Milk Jug cover featuring doll figurine with net skirt crochet around edges and little coloured plastic beads on the outer edge. (Skirt has been remade by Frances Warren)domestic items, food preparation

Wooden walnut cracker - wooden bowl with screw in handle which crushes nuts.domestic items, food preparation

Butter pats used by aunt Loris Peggie- Nancy Jane (peggie) Cooke B1914-1987 Lived 27 Wolsley Cres, BlackburnButter pats used to make butterA pair of wooden butter pats rectangle in shape with handlesdomestic items, food preparation, food technology, dairying

Crude Ceramic Cleaverdomestic items, food preparation

Bought by Mrs Tate, mother of the donor in the 1920's and used by her.Fine glass tube inserted with larger coloured tube. On the finer tube indicators for milk, water and (between the two) degrees of adulteration. Accompanying, a printed sheet ('A Novelty Tester') giving instructions on how to determine whether milk is adulterated. The kit housed in a cardboard box on which drawings of tester in applicationdomestic items, food preparation

Two wooden butter pats, one large, one smaller. Both ridged on one side. Makers mark stamped on handle. Light coloured wood.Embossed - Mark V Faintdomestic items, food preparation

cream china jelly mould with grooves inside bowl to form patterns on jellydomestic items, food preparation

Glass phial marked 'Horlick's Mixer' in red with measurements in ounces and grammes. Metal plunger mixed the Horlick's chocolate with the milkdomestic items, food preparation

Glass rolling with open ends , possibly used with iced water for rolling out pastry.domestic items, food preparation

Round metal cheese press on wooden base. Metal frame with screw tap on top and wooden blocks inside to alter tension.domestic items, food preparation

Metal whisk for beating food. Wooden handledomestic items, food preparation

Stoneware mortar and pestle used for grinding seeds, nuts, etcdomestic items, food preparation

Head, which is the blade, is welded by two studs to the handledomestic items, food preparation

Owned by Mrs Leach9cm mouth grinding chamber 11cm long mince exit diameter disc with exit holes and warning to screw this ring up tight. 11.5cm worm to mince the meat controlled by 16cm handle. Another screw moves to hold the mincer to the kitchen table.Enterprise, on chamber: tinned meat chopper No 5; on clamp: MF'G. CO. Phila. U.S.A..domestic items, food preparation

Tubular brass handle outside a smaller brass tube. The smaller tube is joined by a screw to an iron fork with turned up ends. Two holes to thread a loop through.domestic items, food preparation

Metal biscuit forcer - metal cylinder with movable wooden rolling pin inside to force out biscuit dough. Star pattern on enddomestic items, food preparation

Used by donorSmall round spice tin. Orange body of tin with 'ground cayenne' Printed on it.Robert Harper & Co. Ltd. (Incorporated in Victoria) Australiadomestic items, food preparation

Margaret's husband worked for Victorian Railways and had many moves in country Victoria before settling in Mitcham in 1956.Small glass bottle that did contain Almond essence. Red plastic lid.McLintocks Almond Essencedomestic items, food preparation

Egg whisk donated by Elsa McFayden; used by her grandmother in the 1920s on the family farm CLEBYARRA in Gippsland.Whisk. Steel wire.domestic items, food preparation

Believed to have been owned originally by Alice and Arthur Fisher who had a 16 acre property in Mullum Mullum Road, Ringwood. The house was called Greenhill and was located at the highest point, now no. 28. They had a mixed farm including an orchard of fruit and nut trees, and a dairy cow. Alice milked the cow much to the amusement of her English family, who delighted in visiting. When the property was sold the butter churn went to Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. Arthur Lunt, donor has memories of its use in Red Hill, where his parents had a mixed farm. That property was sold c. 1950, and the butter Churn returned to the Ringwood Croydon area where it has remained unused for the last 65 years.|The butter churn has been in Croydon and Ringwood since 1952; it is typical of manually operated equipment in use on small properties 100 years ago.Cylindrical container, brown, mounted on board with handle underneath. To one side is a wooden handle and drive gears to spin cylinder. Cylinder has tight fitting lid and makers metal label on the side; opposite side has direction arrow embossed. Mounted on wooden base. Cream was put into churn, handle turned to spin drum until butter was produced. Five parts to the Churn.SVENSKA STOCKHOLM SWEDEN CENTRIFUGA,B.DAHLIA N0:0 SLATER PATENTdomestic items, food preparation

Manual egg beaterLight Running Pat No. V The Toplin Mfg. Co. New Britain, Conn. USAdomestic items, food preparation

Primitive hand made potato masher with twisted wire handle and round base of wire.domestic items, food preparation

Pair of wooden bats, smooth on one side and grooved on other sidedomestic items, food preparation

Green painted metal bean cutter. Screwed onto table with two holes for insertion of beans with turning handle. Underneath a turn table with three razor blades.'Reco'domestic items, food preparation

Lidded wooden box with metal turning handle on outside. Inside has a curved bottom and a paddle wheel turned by the metal handle.E. Cherry - Maker - Gisborne Improved Patentdomestic items, food preparation

Solid square glass jar with metal top and gear wheel, wooden handle and wooden paddle.domestic items, food preparation, food technology, dairying

Black metal with wide hopper at top. Hinged body with clasp. Nine rotating grinders on central spindle. Vice for screwing to shelf or bench.domestic items, food preparation

Long curved stand from clamp to body. Two exposed circular grinders, one with handle, one screwed to hopper.Enterprise M.F.G. Philadelphia.P A. USA. Pat apr 2 Aug 20 & Oct 5 07 'Wet the Raisins' No36domestic items, food preparation

Used in kitchen to cut carrots, cheese slices, onions. boiled eggs, etc.Painted black guillotine on a wooden stand. An iron pole keeps the guillotine in vertical position at one end of the block. Driven by two wheels when a handle is turned. A tilting beam moves the guillotine up and down to cut vegetables, etc. Blade 18cm long by 6.5cm wide. Metal plate missing under blade. A rotatable drum to contain the food to be chopped, which is rotated by a cog at the base (also missing) turns the container. The upright holding chopper blade e is a modification made because of the missing container.|The following description is from Ken Turner Booklet referred to under 'Reference'. ----|The Starrett food chopper would certainly have to be considered one of the more interesting inventions, which incidentally is now considered the ultimate in kitchen collectables. Laroy Starrett in later years' told of how the design of his food chopper was inspired by the action of the walking beam engine used on the Mississippi steam boats. When the crank handle of the chopper is turned, this sets in motion a mechanism which is just fascinating to watch. The crank activates a flywheel which in turn, by a series of cogs and levers, simultaneously rotates a food holding container and raises and lowers within the rotating container, a guillotine like 'chopping blade - the action does not only look like that of a beam steam engine, it even in a way sounds like one, although somewhat noisier. Starrett produced seven different models of these choppers, ranging in size appropriate for domestic use to heavy duty models for butchers, restaurants and for hotel use. The small model was capable of chopping 3lbs in three minutes, and the largest had a capacity for chopping something like 100 lbs in an hour. The mechanical chopper, which became affectionately known as the 'hasher', was the first of some one hundred of Starrett's inventions, and these include a washing machine patented in 1865 which had a similar action to his food chopper, a food press patented in 1873, and a device for lacing shoes he patented in 1886.domestic items, food preparation

Hinged food mixer with egg beater blades of chrome plated steel. Brass handle, chromed. Base worked steel painted with hammertone paint. White plastic base to hold missing lemon squeezer. Bowl to mix in missing. Has five small rubber legs.Has a planetary action and is hand driven. Beats eggs, cream and potatoes. The juice can run down into the basin when lemon is squeezed.domestic items, food preparation