University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Patient Care
Home Health Care
Food, Fortified
Infant Nutrition
Classification
Patient Care
Home Health Care
Food, Fortified
Infant Nutrition
Accession Number
1955.5.2
Description
Ceramic open vessel style pap boat with a pouring lip and raised back of body; white glaze with cobalt blue scenic transfer-print decoration on exterior; pattern consists of a village with a castle or monastery on a hill in the background and large tree on one side; crazed glaze; partially glazed b…
Ceramic open vessel style pap boat with a pouring lip and raised back of body; white glaze with cobalt blue scenic transfer-print decoration on exterior; pattern consists of a village with a castle or monastery on a hill in the background and large tree on one side; crazed glaze; partially glazed bottom.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; donated by Dr. T. G. H. Drake, through the University of Toronto Department of Pediatrics.
Lip at back with minor chips; glaze crazed; old firing flaws on interior bottom; unglazed area on exterior bottom is soiled
Copy Type
Original
Research Facts
Pap boat is a small receptacle for feeding pap to infants and invalids. The typical form is boat-shaped, having the feeding end shaped as a short lip or an extended tapering lip to be placed on the mouth of the person being fed, and the holding end somewhat incurved and usually without a handle.
The term 'pap', allegedly derived from the Scandinavian for the sound made when a baby opens his mouth for nourishment, was probably introduced before its first recordings in literature in the mid-18th century. Recipes for pap usually called for bread, flour and water. A more nourishing mixture, 'panada', was a pap base with added butter and milk, or cooked in broth as a milk substitute