Bread maker
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ceramic
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638748
Summary
’The Three Minute Bread Maker’ consisting of a tin bucket, a dough hook attached to a turning arm and a lid impressed with instructions. The bucket, of tapering cylindrical form with opposed wire handles at the rolled rim and with two button feet and a bracket on the base; an inscription impressed in a circle on the side. The dough hook, of traditional form, attached to a turning arm with a turned wooden finial and held in place by a tri-partite grip held over the rim of the bucket; this held and released on the turn of a handle tightening and loosening the grip. The flat circular tin lid with an elongated oval hole to allow the operation of the turning handle and the impression of the grip frame moulded into it; two concentric ribs also moulded into the lid divide into lines the instructions for use which are impressed.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.