Object number
51/269
Description
Oven peel used for lifting bread and other foodstuffs in and out of a baker’s oven. Leach family, the Malt House, Blewbury, Oxfordshire.
An oven peel was used for lifting bread and other foodstuffs in and out of a baker’s oven. This wooden peel was used by the Leach family who lived at the Malt House in Blewbury, Oxfordshire, for about 200 years. It was found by the donor when he moved in in 1938.
Physical description
1 oven peel: wood; good condition
Archival history
MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'This oven peel was found in the Malt House when Dr. Orwin took it over in 1938. It was used there by the Leach family, who had lived there for approximately 200 years. It is made of wood in the form of a flat rectangular spade attached to a long wooden handle. This handle is 58 inches in length and it fits into a groove between the two extending flanges of the peel itself, and held in place by four screws, two on each side. The head itself is 16.4 inches in length and 5.7 inches in width for 10.3 inches of its length. It then narrows gradually to form the pair of flanges. See also 51/261.'
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_348.tif - High resolution image
