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Description: | This domestic flour sieve made of wood and fine mesh was donated to the museum by a member of the Greek and Greek Cypriot Community Group of Enfield. The Greek Cypriot community have a long culinary tradition of bread, pastry and cake making and this flour sieve known as a koskino is an essential kitchen utensil used in every day cooking. As well as its culinary uses, the sieving of flour also carries symbolic meaning in Greek Cypriot cultural traditions. At weddings, it is traditional for a boy or girl to sieve flour in front of relatives who have gathered. Coins are then thrown into the flour by all those present as a symbol of wealth and wishes of good luck are called out in honour of the bride and groom. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Enfield Museum Service | Rights holder: | Enfield Museum Service | Subjects: | Communities | Source: | Enfield Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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