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Once the iron was heated in the fire, it could cook three or four waffles before it needed to be reheated. The handle is quite long of course, it just doesn't show in this shot.
Ceramic dishes would have been imported from England, packed in barrels such as these. Breakage was expected.
The plantation was mostly self sufficient and made many of the wood items it needed. These tools are all authentic to the period.
This device was used to toast bread slices by an open fire. The front rotated so the bread could be toasted on both sides.
The large spinning wheel (walking wheel) was used for spinning wool, since it was much faster. The smaller wheels were used for spinning flax into linen.
Small birds or other game might be roasted on a device such as this.
Our guide wore a clay pipe in the back of his hat, which was common in colonial times. During the Revolutionary War, soldiers often put a one pound note in their caps the same way in hopes that if they got killed, someone would notify their family.
Pete is demonstrating how flax was made into linen on the Dickinson Plantation.
Portrait of Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, John Dickinson's mother.