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New For Easter! - Cookie Cutters
For a unique Easter treat I have created 6 new cookie cutters. These one of kind cutter designed to be part of your Easter traditions.If you are looking for cheap imports then these are not for you! I mount my cutters on a tinplate back in order to ensure that they hold there shape. It makes the cutters much easier to handle. If you want to have a custom cookie cutter made contact us
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History of Cookie CuttersDecorated cakes and biscuits were very popular in North America throughout the 19th century. One type was a biscuit or cookie cut into a variety of shapes and sizes representing for example, people, animals, fruit, vegetables,household wares and a host of other articles. The fancy cookies were particularly in demand on festive occasions such as at Christmas time when they would be used to dress Christmas trees and make decorative festoons - as well as providing welcome snacks for guests.
The cookie shapes were cut from their pastry dough using cutters made from tinplate by local tinsmiths. Tinplate was used because it was cheap and readily available, easy to form and solder, corrosion resistant, non poisonous and easy to keep clean. A cookie cutter in the mid 19th century might cost between 5c and 10c and a family, in the course of time, might accumulate a dozen or so for use on special occasions. Original cookie cutters come in a wide range of sizes measuring from about 1" high to 24" high (some cookie!).
However, cutters about the size of your hand are more practical and easier to handle. The following instructions explain how you can make your own cookie cutters using readily available materials. The completed cutters may be used to make cookies or may be simply decorative. They make original, inexpensive gifts which can be custom designed to represent items of interest to the recipient, - cars, boats, etc., - design limited only by the imagination of the maker.
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