I remember as a child, being allowed to stand on a stool in the kitchen ‘helping’ my mother with making pastry, covered in flour (and being allowed to actually have one of my pastry ‘shapes’ baked), or just rooting through her drawer of kitchen tools, and it made me think of how many of these old tools have stood the test of time, or could even be useful again.
Butter paddles were in her collection and were two wooden paddles with grooves cut lengthwise down each one. For special occasions, a block of butter would be cut up into small