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This is an oven peel, which was used for lifting bread and other foodstuffs in and out of a baker’s oven, which was usually very deep. They were in common use in most farmhouses during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This peel is made of wood, with a square shaped shovel and a short round handle. This came to the museum as part of the Sharp collection.

1 oven paddle: wood; good condition

The Sharp Collection of agricultural and dairying equipment was compiled by Reverend C. J. Sharp at Wonersh, Surrey. Reverend Sharp died in 1967 and the Museum acquired the Collection for £60 in 1968., MERL ‘Handwritten Catalogue’ form - ‘OVEN PEEL // Domestic cooking // SHARP COLLECTION // wood [pencil drawing].’