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Maryland historical society finally identifies 100-year-old mystery machine
Clothes wringer? Meat tenderizer? Biscuit beater? The jury was out on the oddity.
According to WBOC on October 29th, the Dorchester County Historical Society in Cambridge, Maryland, had spent weeks trying to determine what its “Neild Museum gadget” was originally designed to do. After asking the public to chime in last month, Facebook commenters offered a number of theories for the device, including a clothes wringer, a leather tanner, a planographic press for lithographs, and even a meat tenderizer. The biscuits were likely developed as a workaround for a lack of leavening used to lighten and soften the dough, and consisted of lard, flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder.
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