Cream Skimmer
Gairloch Museum
This wonderful kitchen device for skimming the cream from milk has been fashioned from a scallop shell drilled with holes. It shows an inventive use of natural materials and would have been used for making butter and crowdie cheese.
Crowdie is a soft cheese traditionally made by crofting families using milk from the family cow.
How do you think those perfect holes in the shell were made without breaking it?
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Date: 1900
Materials : Shell
Size : 12cm x 5cm
