A vintage wooden butter mold with a carved leaf design - Nobtis/Getty Images These decorative molds were always made of wood, and they could be square boxes or cylinders. The butter was set into the ...

I love murdering innocent cherubs. I swipe their legs off with crusts of bread, crush their wings beneath twisting radishes, and save gleeful decapitation for last, sprinkling their fleshy cheeks with ...

Once a burdensome chore for each family to produce for dinner, the art of making superior butter became a delightful practice, and each neighborhood soon developed butter-making households that had ...

It isn’t easy to recognize this wood piece with a deeply carved design. Unlike today’s familiar decorating stamping tools, it wasn’t pressed into ink and used to print on fabric or paper; it is a ...