Milk kettle

Datasheet
Type of object
Cooking pot
Origin
Netherlands
Technique and material

Enamelled sheet metal

Date
1910
Dimensions
13.5 x 21.5 cm

This pouring jug has a perforated lid to prevent milk from spilling over when it boils. The small loop handle makes the lid easy to adjust. Such kettles were used to boil raw milk to kill germs, long before the invention of processing milk at an ultra-high temperature (UHT).