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[[Image:Sugarnips62.jpg|right|thumb| Sugar nips for cutting a sugarloaf into smaller pieces]] |
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[[Image:Sugarloaf_Box_-_Open.jpg|right|thumb| Swedish sugarloaf box for cutting sugar and collecting residues]] |
[[Image:Sugarloaf_Box_-_Open.jpg|right|thumb| Swedish sugarloaf box for cutting sugar and collecting residues]] |
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'''Sugar nips''' are a large pair of [[pincers (tool)|pincers]] with sharp blades, designed to cut sugar from a block.<ref>David, Elizabeth. "English Bread and Yeast Cookery", Penguin:Middlesex 1977 (p. 139)</ref> Before the introduction of granulated and cube sugars in the second half of the 19th century,<ref>"Sugar: a Handbook for Planters and Refiners", Lock & Newlands Bros, pub. Spon, London, 1888</ref> the domestic consumer purchased sugar in the form of a [[sugarloaf]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mawer.clara.net/history.html |title=History |publisher=Mawer.clara.net |date= |access-date=2012-11-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013231449/http://www.mawer.clara.net/history.html |archive-date=October 13, 2012 }}</ref> or at least a part of one, and pieces were cut from it by hand using sugar nips.<ref>[http://www.mkmuseum.org.uk/edu/cep/sc/photogallery.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007040923/http://www.mkmuseum.org.uk/edu/cep/sc/photogallery.html |date=October 7, 2008 }}</ref> Greater leverage and improved safety was provided by heavier sugar nips set in a wooden base for counter- and table-top use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mylearning.org/image-zoom.asp?jpageid=2379&picid=2 |title=The Victorian Servant - Sugar Cutter |publisher=Mylearning.org |date= |accessdate=2012-11-09}}</ref> |
'''Sugar nips''' are a large pair of [[pincers (tool)|pincers]] with sharp blades, designed to cut sugar from a block.<ref>David, Elizabeth. "English Bread and Yeast Cookery", Penguin:Middlesex 1977 (p. 139)</ref> Before the introduction of granulated and cube sugars in the second half of the 19th century,<ref>"Sugar: a Handbook for Planters and Refiners", Lock & Newlands Bros, pub. Spon, London, 1888</ref> the domestic consumer purchased sugar in the form of a [[sugarloaf]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mawer.clara.net/history.html |title=History |publisher=Mawer.clara.net |date= |access-date=2012-11-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013231449/http://www.mawer.clara.net/history.html |archive-date=October 13, 2012 }}</ref> or at least a part of one, and pieces were cut from it by hand using sugar nips.<ref>[http://www.mkmuseum.org.uk/edu/cep/sc/photogallery.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007040923/http://www.mkmuseum.org.uk/edu/cep/sc/photogallery.html |date=October 7, 2008 }}</ref> Greater leverage and improved safety was provided by heavier sugar nips set in a wooden base for counter- and table-top use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mylearning.org/image-zoom.asp?jpageid=2379&picid=2 |title=The Victorian Servant - Sugar Cutter |publisher=Mylearning.org |date= |accessdate=2012-11-09}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 05:38, 2 October 2019
Sugar nips are a large pair of pincers with sharp blades, designed to cut sugar from a block.[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.
In popular culture
A pair of sugar nips are the murder weapon in Mrs McGinty's Dead, a Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie.[6][circular reference]
See also
References
- ^ David, Elizabeth. "English Bread and Yeast Cookery", Penguin:Middlesex 1977 (p. 139)
- ^ "Sugar: a Handbook for Planters and Refiners", Lock & Newlands Bros, pub. Spon, London, 1888
- ^ "History". Mawer.clara.net. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- ^ [1] Archived October 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Victorian Servant - Sugar Cutter". Mylearning.org. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- ^ "Mrs McGinty's Dead". Wikipedia.
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