Alarm Clock – New Kitchen Invention.
No microwave timer? No smartphone alarm? No problem! Check out this newest and most handiest of inventions, the alarum, or cooking clock. (Alarum is the British spelling)
Note the N.B. – If the fire isn’t the correct temperature, the alarm clock will not serve much of a purpose. Makes complete sense, but not something I would have though of.
Source: Soyer’s Shilling Cookery for the People, 1855.
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Setting the hand back to twelve, etc…sounds a little complicated. Thank goodness for modern technology! 🙂
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I know, right? Still, I can only imagine how excited the cook at the time would have been to have something to help keep track of time –
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The sundial always seems to work fine for me! 😉
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