Spaghetti Maker
Object Title: Kitchen Equipment
Object Name: Spaghetti Maker
Description
Brass spaghetti maker with attachments; borer holes in wooden handle
Size (in mm)
Handle 430 mm L
Screw mechanism 325 mm L
Pasta cylinder 290 mm L
Parts
Handle, cylinder, screw, screw fitting (table attachment), 5 dyes
Collection
No (item in personal custody of owner)
Colour
Brass (yellow), with green discolouration
Materials
Brass
Maker
Unknown, commercial
Inscriptions
Nil
Method of manufacture
Not Known
Contents
Nil
Use
Raw pasta dough put into the cylinder, the handle is rotated and pasta comes out the bottom into a bowl on the floor
History
Brought to Australia by Mistica Rosa Scapin (Rina’s mother) in 1929
Date
- Made: Not Known
- Donated: No
- Recorded (for register): 18 January 2004
Associated information
You had to have flour (in the bowl) and throw it onto the pasta, and then lower the pasta into the bowl. You cut the pasta to whatever length you wanted – 2 ft 6” long (roughly). Pasta was always made fresh. Could make it and dry it on a sheet, on a bed or table and store it.
Flour and eggs, salt in the water when cooking. Might do six eggs at a time. After breakfast mum did the dough and I turned the handle, while mum did cutting and flour from the bottom. Bowl at the bottom had flour in it. Every time one pressing was finished – each length taken and put on an unfloored surface. There are different shapes – most common one was spaghetti. Made it once a week for use during the week. Also made pasta in forno (pasta in the oven – lasagne)
Didn’t use it much after I started work – when I was about 20 years old. She used if for about 20 years. Used the pasta maker once a fortnight and made other type every couple of days [i.e. rolled pastry]. Rina’s job was to clean it out. Never cleaned the inside – had flour inside and just left it.
Item number
N/A
Cataloguer
Eva Castle
Current location
Personal collection, Rina Montgomery (nee Filippi), Bulli NSW