A pastry wheel, also known as a pastry jigger or jagging wheel, is a kitchen tool which is used to cut pastry and other doughs.[1][2] A typical design includes a small wheel on a handle, which is shaped in such a way that it produces a jagged cut or other pattern in the dough.[3] Pastry wheels for home use tend to have just one wheel, whereas ones for professional use may include multiple wheels so as to cut large quantities of dough at once.[1] The handles of pastry wheels are made of varying materials depending on the wealth of their user, from simple wood or pottery, to silver, bone and mother of pearl.[1]
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Pastry cutters date back to antiquity, although the wheel did not appear until the late Middle Ages. The first known pastry cutter appears in a relief in a 4th-century B.C. Etruscan tomb. The first attested use of a pastry wheel in a professional kitchen dates from 1549 in Italy. They are also referred to in Bartolomeo Scappi's 1570 culinary opera.[1] Both typical and atypical pastry wheels are held in museum collections, including several artistic wheels made entirely from scrimshaw.[1][4][5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Pastry cutter wheels: home memories". Loison Museum. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
- ^ Finlay, Michael (2014). Pastry jiggers and pastry prints. Penrith, Cumbria: H. & H. Reeds Printers Ltd. ISBN 978-1-872477-03-9.
- ^ "PASTRY JIGGERS 1". www.michaelfinlay.com. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
- ^ Institution, Smithsonian. "Scrimshaw Ivory Jagging Wheel". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
- ^ Piper, Leslie Thayer (2022-03-24). "Pie? Oh my!". Sippican Historical Society. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
- ^ Jagging Wheel, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1770–1800, retrieved 2024-12-06