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Cutter, Sugar


Title	Cutter, Sugar
Coverage / Year	1825 to 1850
Description	Sugar cutter made from iron with a wooden handle. Made by AK and Sons.
Interpretation	This cutter was designed for cutting sugar into small pieces. Sugar came in cones or blocks (see 68.1.2098) and was very expensive. Sugar cutters were needed to cut the sugar into usable amounts. It is not possible to grow cane sugar in northern climes and early settlers in Illinois used very little of it. Sweetners such as sorghum and molasses were much more
Lesson Plans / Themes	Westward Expansion; Settling in the Midwest; Food Time Line
Learning Standards	16 History; 15 Economics;
Author or Creator	Early American Museum
Subject / Keywords	Sugar; Pioneers; Cookery; Food;
Collection Publisher	Early American Museum
Further Information	For any further information related to this record, please contact the Collection Publisher. See http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc for more information about this project.
Rights Management Statement	http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc/conditions.htm
Resource Identifier	1968.001.0290
CONTENTdm file name	38.jpg