The Victorians liked specialised gadgets!

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The Victorians seem to have been big fans of specialised equipment and gadgets. Obviously they didn’t have all the electronic gizmos we have today – though I’m sure they would have loved them if they had – but they did like to have special things for different tasks, especially in the home. Probably they rather liked to show off that they had all the ‘correct’ utensils as well! In our family we tend to keep things rather than throw them out, so we still have a few of these bits and pieces in the backs of cupboards and they come to light again now and then. The Victorians loved special forks for dessert, special grape scissors, sugar tongs, salt spoons, jars for preserves – all that sort of thing – and different containers for different foods. While cleaning out a cupboard last week we rediscovered this, which I think is a sardine dish. It makes canned sardines seem like an exotic treat – maybe I should use it one day! I planned to buy a can of sardines yesterday but couldn’t find any that were sustainably sourced so in the end I had to buy mackerel instead. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2017.