We now buy sugar granulated, or formed into cubes, ready for use. In Victorian times it was sold in much bigger lumps, or as a large 'cone', and the housewife or maid would have to cut it up herself, using these sugar cutters. Nowadays sugar mostly comes from sugar beet, a root vegetable like a swede. However when this sugar cutter was in use sugar would have come from sugar cane, grown in the West Indies.
Sugar cutter
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