How to carve every joint on the table, 1887 — from the woman who wrote the Boston Cook Book, cut by cut.

Fruit and Nuts

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Fruit and Nuts

A pair of grape scissors should be laid on the fruit-dish to use in dividing large bunches of grapes or raisins; but a nut-cracker is too…

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