Sugar nips

Sugar nips for cutting a sugarloaf into smaller pieces
Swedish sugarloaf box for cutting sugar and collecting residues

Sugar nips are a large pair of pincers with sharp blades, designed to cut raw sugar.[1] Before the introduction of granulated and cube sugars in the second half of the 19th century,[2] the domestic consumer purchased sugar in the form of a sugarloaf,[3] or at least a part of one, and pieces were cut from it by hand using sugar nips.[4] Greater leverage and improved safety was provided by heavier sugar nips set in a wooden base for counter- and table-top use.[5]

There was also an all-in-one version; a box that could serve as container for the sugarloaf with built-in pliers and collector drawer for fine-grained residues from the sugar cutting.

References

  1. ↑ David, Elizabeth. "English Bread and Yeast Cookery", Penguin:Middlesex 1977 (p. 139)
  2. ↑ "Sugar: a Handbook for Planters and Refiners", Lock & Newlands Bros, pub. Spon, London, 1888
  3. ↑ "History". Mawer.clara.net. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  4. ↑ Archived October 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "The Victorian Servant - Sugar Cutter". Mylearning.org. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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