Part of series on antiques and collecting.Book documenting historical cooking Utensils especially relating to the United Kingdom. front cover illustration of kitchen scene (1700's)Shire Album 177 Old Cooking Utensils, David J. Eveleighhistorical cooking utensils

This Pie Iron was used in the mid to late 1900's when stock, both cattle and sheep, were grazed on the Bogong High Plains. Providing meals for stockmen over open fires, even in log cabins in the Victorian Alpine region, was usually by a "camp cook" or a stockman designated "cook" from the Valley station/property. The use of "camping cooking utensils were a necessity and not a "weekend" affair. Stockmen could spend up to six weeks on the plains and all their cooking needs required had to "pack horsed" from the valley below. A scientific study started in 1947, to study the impact of grazing cattle on the natural Alpine and sub Alpine vegetation found grazing cattle had an adverse affect on the natural Alpine and sub alpine vegetation, and grazing on the plains was stopped by the Victorian Government in 2005.This item is highly significant to the Kiewa Valley as it demonstrates the kind of cooking utensils that were required for camp drafts in the Bogong High Plains environment. As the control of cattle and sheep in the High Plains was very demanding upon horse and rider, good "tucker" was a pre- requisite for a successful operation. As the time spent in this remote location was governed by the climatic condition maximum utilisation of the very good pastures in the High Plains was crucial to a successful and profitable season.This pie iron has two pie forms in horizontal configuration and both top and base rounded forms are connected at one end (Top) with pop rivet application. This application allows for the "opening" up of the two halves. The bodies are made from cast iron in a "cup" form and a metal rod and wooden handle extend to permit the opening of the two sides. The inner side of the "cups" are smooth which relates to pie requirements and not the jaffle/sandwich irons. A clasp metal "D" ring is installed at the end of one wooden handle (to keep the iron in the close/cooking position).camp fire cooking utensils, hot plate, cast iron cooking appliances, pie irons, jaffle irons, drovers kitchen

This nut roll tin was used in a period before 1959(when plastic containers started being used). It was a period when "home" cooking(desert & cakes) was the only method of having cakes and other pastry dishes in rural areas. The utensils available for this home cooking had to be strong and reliable and low maintenance. This nut roll can is very significant(in rural Australia) because it highlights a period in time when the majority of cakes and other pastry dishes were cooked in the family kitchen and not purchased from a shop. This was a period of self sufficiency especially in semi remote rural areas such as the Kiewa Valley. This was a time when cooking utensils were either made in Australia or imported from England or Europe. After World War II imports from the USA increased significantly and then followed by cheaper products from Asia.This cylindrical nut loaf tin(mild steel) has a removable lid and base. There are three retaining hooks which stop the spring steel "main body" from being condensed beyond the circumference of both top and bottom "lids" The tin is pliable enough to "open" up and allow the baked nut loaf to be removed.On the outside edge of each lid "NUT LOAF" and the opposite side "TIN"baking tins, kitchen utensils, tins

Purchased at Herberts Store in Orbost in 1910 possibly by the donor, Mr S Peterson.This is an example of an early cast iron cooking utensil commonly used over an open fire.A cast iron round flat pan with an iron handle. The pan has raised spikes all over it and a small gutter around the edge with a pouring spout.cooking drovers-pan open-fire-cooking

Metal cleaver, rusted and missing the handle. Blade has indentations along the cutting edge.cleaver, goldfields, chinese, harrietville, cooking utensils

Gem irons were heated before adding batter. The design was unchanged for many years. Also known as drop scone iron.Cast iron gem scone iron, for 12 sconesgem irons, baking utensils, cooking

Glass rolling pin can be filled with warm or ice water, cork stoppers missing. Used in baking for rolling out pastry.Glass rolling pin, molded lass, cork stoppers missingrolling pins, cooking, baking utensils

Commonly used for rolling dough in cookingTurned wooden rolling pinrolling pin, baking utensils, woodcraft

Dairy Thermometers are used for testing the temperature of milk while making yogurts and cheese. Early settler families owned a 'House cow' to provide milk ,cream, cheese for their familiesA typical milk thermometer used by early settlers in Moorabbin Shire c1900A graduated Dairy thermometerDAIRY THERMOMETER / MADE IN GERMANY early settlers, market gardeners, dairy farmers, milk products, cheese making, thermometers, cooking utensils, kitchenware, castiron cooking pots, blacksmiths, slow cooking, moorabbin shire, bentleigh, mckinnon, highett, cheltenham,mcewan james pty ltd, melbourne, bunnings pty ltd,

Early settler women were skilled craft workers and crocheted doilies and other napery for their household. This Doiley is a cover for a jug or cup, with the glass beads providing the weight to secure it, to protect the contents from flies, insects and dust while on the kitchen table.Early settler women were skilled in dressmaking, crochet, knitting as they made clothes, furnishings, drapery and tableware for their families c1900A cotton, crocheted doily with a teapot pattern and green beads at edges to keep it in place when protecting contents of a jug or cupkitchen equipment, crochetwork, napery, doilies, milk jugs, early settlers, market gardeners, cooking utensils, kitchenware, castiron cooking pots, blacksmiths, slow cooking, moorabbin shire, bentleigh, mckinnon, highett, cheltenham,

A mixer is a kitchen utensil which uses a gear-driven mechanism to rotate a set of beaters in a bowl containing the food to be prepared. It automates the repetitive tasks of stirring, whisking or beating. Mixers for the kitchen first came into use midway through the nineteenth century; the earliest were mechanical devices. The mixer with rotating parts was patented in 1856 by Ralph Collier a tinsmith in Baltimore, Maryland .This was followed by E.P. Griffith's whisk patented in England in 1857. A circular tin used for mixing batters. The 2 beaters are of wire, with metal gears, suspended from a metal strip that fits over the tin bowl. and is clamped into place by a metal screw . A crank handle with a wooden black knob attached by a screw is turned by hand to mix the batter in the base. This tin could be secured to a table by a clamp and screw. cooking, kitchen equipment, dairy, cakes, housework, early settlers, pioneers, baking, nutrition, blacksmiths, market gardeners, cake mixers, moorabbin, cheltenham, bentleigh, brighton

This meat mincer was a common kitchen utensil used by housewives for the preparation of meat when cooking food for their familiesA 'Universal' steel, meat mincer with clamp to attach to table or bench, funnel top, and an adjustable screw - to cut meat - that is operated by a steel crank with a wooden handle.Front ; 2 'Universal' Crank arm : L.F&C. NEW BRITAIN, CONN, USAearly settlers, pioneers, market gardeners, moorabbin, bentleigh, housewives, home cooking, meat preparation, thatcher frank, l f & c pty ltd conneticut, butchers

This device was improvised to prepare herbs for cooking, It could chop bundles of herbs efficiently whilst also ensuring the users fingers were kept clear of the blades. The user held onto the handle and rolled the blades across the herbs to be cut. This item has typical of kitchenware improvised to complete tasks when more food preparation was completed in the home.A device with two sets of sharp metal rollers attached to a metal frame with a handle, The wooden handle is painted in green. domestic appliances, kitchen utensils

Hung on a hook suspended from a bar in the chimney of an open fireplace2 armed handle, linked in the middle, used over open fires upon which to hank cooking utensils. Shaped in a semi-circlecooking utensils, fireplace tools

These books were being used in schools during the 1950s.Soft covered cream book with illustration of woman on apron holding pie with cooking utensils in front of her.books, cookery

Round toy cooking utensil - painted yellow with a pattern of colourful roosters . Frying pan and pot. 4 piecestoys, general

Square tin toy cooking pot - painted yellow with a pattern of colourful roosters with lid.toys, general