Oh pshaw, on Mon 12 Nov 2007 05:50:08a, Ophelia meant to say...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> My mom used a can like that to cut out biscuits. I think it had been
>> a soup can, based on the diameter.
>
> My mother used a milk bottle to roll out pastry and a tumbler (drinking
> glass) to cut out scones and pastry
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My grandmother use an old wine bottle to roll out biscuits/scones, and
pastry. In summer she would fill it with ice water and cork it to roll out
pastry. She also used a tumble to cut out the biscuits/scones.

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