dutch hand

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Definition of dutch hand in English English dictionary

A butter pat, being a wooden paddle used to press butter when making it at home. Usually two are used and hence usually in the plural hands

1977: Ranged on shelves along the stone walls would be pans of milk set to rise, buckets and cans, maturing cheeses, butter churns, and butter pats or Dutch hands for beating the last traces of water from the golden mass. — Richard Daunton-Fear and Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977, ISBN 0-7270-0187-6 (discussing a typical kitchen of early colonial Australia).

Related Terms

Dutch hands

plural form of Dutch hand

Hyphenation

dutch Hand

Turkish pronunciation

dʌç händ

Pronunciation

/ˈdəʧ ˈhand/ /ˈdʌʧ ˈhænd/