Pestle or hammer

In Collections: Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project Museum Objects

Copyright Status: In Copyright

Date: 18xx/19xx

Subjects: Kitchen utensils
Cooking
United States
History

Material Type: Implements (object genre)

Language: No linguistic content

Extent: 2 objects

Historical Note: From The New England Economical Housekeeper by Esther Allen Howland (1845): Depending on the recipe and use, there are a variety of pestle-like, wooden mallet and hammer types of instruments for tenderizing meat, softening fish, mashing and pulverizing food. These are a variety of types of meat tenderizers, also called meat beetles.

Holding Institution: Michigan State University. Museum

Referenced In: The American economical housekeeper, and family receipt book, available at: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m59w93

Related Items: Beetle, available at: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m55x25c7x
Mallet, available at: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5g44hq75
Potato and vegetable mashers, available at: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5cf9j65z

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