{"id":1674,"date":"2012-05-07T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2017-04-19T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:05:58","slug":"1674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/1674\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/kitchen\/titleIllustration_L.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/kitchen\/titleIllustration.gif\" alt=\"Fish Illustration\" width=450\" height=\"184\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Illustration from <em>Breakfast, Dinner and Supper<\/em>, by Maud C. Cooke<\/h5>\n<p>My grandmother gave me a number of early kitchen tools, most of which I could identify. One, however stumped me. It was cast iron and no one I asked could come up with its use. Many suggestions but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend our house is to be on a house tour and I was straightening up my cook book shelves and on the highest&#8212;I need a ladder to reach it&#8212;I keep old cookbooks. One, <em>Breakfast, Dinner and Supper<\/em>, by Maud C. Cooke, 1897 had illustrations of different tools and there it was page 104.  A FISH SCALER. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/kitchen\/fishScaler_L.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/kitchen\/fishScaler.gif\" alt=\"Fish Scaler\" width=450\" height=\"93\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Engraving of cast iron Fish Scaler c. 1897<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Maud C. Cooke tells:<br \/>\n&#8220;Pour vinegar over fresh fish to make the scales come off easily&#8230;To scale a fish hold it by the tail under water (which is salted) in a deep pan&#8230; scrape the scales from the tail towards the head. The scales will come off easier under water and will fall to the bottom of the pan instead of flying about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engraving of cast iron Fish Scaler c. 1897 Maud C. Cooke tells: &#8220;Pour vinegar over fresh fish to make the scales come off easily&#8230;To scale a fish hold it by the tail under water (which is salted) in a deep pan&#8230; scrape the scales from the tail towards the head. The scales will come off&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/1674\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}