Chip Cutter
Display: Sweet Inventions
Culinary Technique: size reduction
Date: c. 1900
Manufacturer: Thomas Mills and Brother Company
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dimensions: 7" h x 16" w x 7" d
Watch collection donor Mel Mickevic demonstrate this object with
Dean Christopher
Koetke, School of Culinary Arts, Kendall College,
and Victoria Matranga, exhibition curator.
Used for cutting chips (hard-boiled candy pulled as thin as paper), this heavy roller cut pieces about one inch by three inches and kept them flat and glossy. The candy was made in a variety of colors and highly flavored.