Treen in the Kitchen
Treen & Treenware Collectibles
Treen & Treenware in the Kitchen
In my mind, Treen is connected to wooden items for kitchen use. The items shown below are things we have purchased or inherited, made of wood, and designed for use in the kitchen.
Listed below are five auctions going on now for kitchen treenware on Ebay. Below that are pictures and descriptions of our own kitchen treen collection.
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We show here four wooden “Star Stirrers”. They are about ten inches long and the tip is a little over a inch across. I believe they were used by putting them into the batter or whatever else needed mixing and rolling the handle between your hands. Somehow I doubt … MORE>>> |
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This is an all wood “Meat Mallet”. Wild game tends to lack fat and be very tough. I doubt the settlers had a jar of tenderizer on the shelf so hammering meat to tenderize it would have been important. This mallet is the one with the longest width of … MORE>>> |
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This mallet is the one with the shortest width of just over 2 1/2” from notched face to notched face. It is 12” tall and the handle is turned from a separate piece of wood. On the handle you can see the lathe marks on both ends from where it was held … MORE>>> |
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This masher is turned from a single piece of heavy, fine grained, hardwood. It is not oak. It stand just over 13” tall and just under 3” wide at the base. Time and exposure to New Mexico’s dry climate has dried it out and there are a couple of cracks in … MORE>>> |
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This masher is made in two pieces. The handle was turned separately from the base. Both the handle and base have a split. It stands 12 1/2” tall and the base is 2 3/8” wide. It is the middle masher in the group picture. There are no maker marks or stamps I can find. |
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This masher has the most slender base of the three shown here. It is just over 12” tall and the base is 2 1/4” wide. It has the best wood of the three mashers we have. It is heavy and the wood on both the handle and the base is very smooth. ... MORE>>> |
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Stirring spoons were made in a wonderful variety as these three show. All are around 10” long but the size and shape of the spoon part is quite different. Obviously the maker knew what kind of pans would be stirred with these and crafted them accordingly. They are made from … MORE>>> |
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Three more spoon variations. Obviously, making a spoon with an angled corner was useful for stirring the corners of pots and pans. There are made from a hardwood and are 10” to 12” long. The home in the center of one spoon is about an inch in diameter. It is NOT ... MORE>>> |
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This bowl was turned from a single piece of lightweight hardwood. It is 15 1/2” across to the edges of the handles and 11 3/4” from outside edge or outside edge without the handles. It is a little over 4” deep on the inside. When looking at the grain I was surprised to realize … MORE>>> |
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This bowl is cut from a single piece of birch and is 13” in diameter. This is much harder wood then the bowl shown above and it has been finished to make it more water resistant. The marks on the bottom are hard to read but I think I see “... MORE>>> |