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75/52
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
This is a curd cutter with 12 vertical knives. The knives are attached to a bar at the top. The handle is at a right angle to the cutter and is made of dark wood. It is attached by a brass ring. It has slightly reinforced feet on the bottom. The top end of the cutter is square. The cutter was used to cut cheese curd vertically, this example would have been used in conjunction with cutter 75/53. This item was used at Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture, St. Albans.
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1 curd cutter: metal (steel, brass); wood; good condition- handle cracked
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>3. <B>Curd cutter</B><P>Curd cutters were used to cut the curd once the liquid whey had been drained away. By doing so any whey within the curd could also be removed. Dairymaids had at one time broken the curd by hand, squeezing each piece to remove the whey. Later they used wooden and then metal cutters like that pictured above. Also known as a curd knife, the example pictured came from Hertfordshire County Council's College of Agriculture and Horticulture. It was used during the 1920s and early 1930s by students in the College's practical dairy class at Oaklands, St Albans. The curd cutter has forty-six blades that cut the curd horizontally and would have been used in conjunction with a cutter with vertical blades.<P>75/52</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV><DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>5. <B>Curd cutter</B><P>Curd cutters were used to cut the curd once the liquid whey had been drained away. By doing so any whey within the curd could also be removed. Dairymaids had at one time broken the curd by hand, squeezing each piece to remove the whey. Later they used wooden and then metal cutters like that pictured above. Also known as a curd knife, the example pictured came from Hertfordshire County Council's College of Agriculture and Horticulture. It was used during the 1920s and early 1930s by students in the College's practical dairy class at Oaklands, St Albans. The curd cutter is made of steel with a wooden handle and has a total of forty-six blades that cut the curd horizontally. It would have been used in conjunction with a cutter with vertical blades.<P>75/52</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>
[nb-NO]Archival history[nb-NO]
MERL ‘History Artefacts’ card – ‘Curd cutter // Place of use: Oaklands, date of use: 1920-30s // Herts County College of Agriculture and Horticulture, St Albans // Description: A curd cutter with 12 vertical knives. The knives are attached to a bar at the top. The handle is at a right angle to the cutter and is made of dark wood. It is attached by a brass ring. It has slightly reinforced feet on the bottom. The top end of the cutter is square. Use: for cutting cheese curds vertically, used with cutter 75/53.’
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1920-01-01
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_12411.tif - High resolution image
