Fruit or Lard Press
Display: Hearth to Cookstove
Culinary Technique: separation
Date: c. 1900
Dimensions: 26" h x 14" w x 11" d
Watch collection donor Mel Mickevic demonstrate this object with
Dean Christopher
Koetke, School of Culinary Arts, Kendall College,
and Victoria Matranga, exhibition curator.
Two nesting cylinders form this ten-quart cast-iron press. Turning the horizontal handle pushed the heavy iron plate down to compress the contents, expelling liquid through the perforated inner cylinder and out the spout at the bottom.