[Sca-cooks] pantler knife/chaffer knife

[James Prescott]

At 14:31 -0800 2004-12-10, Huette von Ahrens wrote:
>  --- James Prescott <prescotj at telusplanet.net>
>  wrote:
>
>
>>  OED gives the verb chaff "To roll up (dough)
>>  into a rounded form in the moulding of a round
>>  loaf." It mentions a chaffing table on which
>>  this is  done.
>>
>>  It is thus tempting to suggest that a chaffer
>>  would  be a knife used for cutting the (large)
>>  round loaves.
>
>  Which edition are you using?  This definition is
>  not in my 1971 edition.

It's in the supplement (1987) to the first edition, and
I would presume it is also in the second edition.


Thorvald