Featured What is this primitive looking pot thing with a very long handle used for?

The handle is 28" long. The pot is 8 1/4" wide and 5 1/2" tall. A magnet sticks to the handle and the pot. Any ideas of what it may have been used for? Age? Thank you.

 

Looks like a dipper to be used in a large vat of???

 

Hi,
A large vat of fresh turtle soup. Oh I can still smell the soup cooking even 70 years later.
greg

 

I suggest a home-made tool for keeping one's distance from something unpleasant, perhaps dangerously hot or smelly and foul.

 

ladling (lye) soap out of the cauldron - it was all of the above...................

 

After searching around, this seems to have a longer handle than anything else I've seen. If it was for scooping up something dangerous, unpleasant or smelly, wouldn't it have a pouring spout?

 

Mmm hmm. I was thinking too of the horse-drawn "Honey Wagon", the "Honey Dipper" man and what tools would have been used for outhouse cleaning. Can't find anything besides pics of wagons, carts, agricultural manure spreaders (which were a different thing) and text tho'.
It just looks a bit too "engineered" for a simple water dipper.

 

Good point ! Unless the process was more of a less-than-precise dump than a careful pour.

The thing sure looks sturdy.

 

maybe from a dairy farm.....

 

We used something like this to get water out of the cistern when the pump wasn't working.
But looks like it would be used for something hot such as apple butter from the vat or metal.

 

Something hot and syrup-like, hot molasses maybe?

 

Scooping molten metal and pouring it into molds?

 

It is too flimsy for molten metal.

 

Actually now I take a closer look at it, you might be right! LOL.

What about tar or something of that kind? Pitch? etc?

 

With tar or pitch you would have the same problem, so my vote goes to etc.

 

.........close...

 

I'm tellin ya (well, I'm stickin to) home made soap.......................

 

Hi Mansons,
Making soap for many a year we never ever used a ladle it was always a wooden paddle. Of course we were common and only made lye soap. I guess if you handmade fancy soap you might need a ladle.
greg

 

not so much fancy soap, but after you mix it with the paddle, you sometimes put it in "molds" (nothing fancy) to avoid having to cut it into blocks later. At least the was the last "receipt" I read in the records of our farm houses out on Long Island.