If you were to go back in time and step into an average American kitchen in 1900, it would feel both familiar and strange. A lot of items would be instantly recognizable — the pots and pans, knives and forks, plates and bowls — but you’d soon notice the lack of certain modern tools. There would be no electric mixer, no blender, no coffee machine, and no refrigerator or freezer.  Back then, everything that happened in the kitchen was done by hand. Homemakers were expected to bake bread, preserve fruit, grind coffee, render lard, and cook hot meals on a stove that required constant attention. The luxury of pressing a single button to heat food, mill ingredients, or toast bread was nothing but a fantasy. Instead, cooks relied on a selection of manually powered devices and appliances. Here are seven such tools that …Read More