[Sca-cooks] pantler knife/chaffer knife

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- James Prescott <prescotj at telusplanet.net>
wrote:

> 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.

I had forgotten about the supplement, and me
a librarian!  However, this definition doesn't
help as the first use of this meaning is 1892.
And the chaffing table is from 1925.  This is
a modern definition, not a medieval one.

Huette

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