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T-049 - Fiddleback Spurtle - SOLD
- SOLD
Fiddleback rock maple. 12½″ x 1½″ $45.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine
I never heard of a porridge stick until I read Independent People, which has been called “the Icelandic national novel.” In Haldor Laxness’ book the stick was long enough to lean on the wall, and a boy thought it was alive. No doubt you know that Scots were using the word “spurtell” since at least 1528. They knew that the tapered round shape was best for stirring because porridge doesn’t stick to it as it might to a spoon. Lest modern Scots forget their history (fat chance) the annual World Porridge Making Championship awards the Golden Spurtle to the year’s best maker of traditional porridge. (Duncan Hilditch was a four-time winner.)
This spurtle came from opening up a pile of firewood searching for a few pieces of that beautiful fiddleback (or tiger) grain.
Cost each: $45.00
Unit size: One of a kind
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