Sugar Nippers

Sugar Nippers

Before sugar cubes and granulated sugar were introduced at the end of the nineteenth century, sugar was bought as a cone or ‘sugarloaf’. Sugar nippers were used to break pieces off the cone.

Trafford Local Studies Collection, cat. ref. TRA/5/7/436

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