Vintage Farmhouse wooden 5 Hole sugar mold

A beautiful wooden 5-hole sugar mold. Beautiful rich color. So many uses! pens, succulents, herbs, candle holder! skies the limit! Great condition 16" Wide X 4 1/2" Tall X 3 1/2" Deep Comes with 5 glass votive holders, no candles. Sugar molds are made of long solid blocks of wood with a series of holes into which raw brown sugar cane syrup could be poured. Once it dried, the syrup formed raw sugar cones that would be wrapped in paper and sold to consumers. The cones were easier to transport and store, and at the time, more refined sugar processing methods had not yet been developed. Spanning back to medieval times and continuing through the 19th century, brown sugar was sold almost solely in cone shapes from a sugar mold. The sugar had to be chipped off from the cone and then sifted. These sugar cones can still be bought in Mexico, and these molds are still used as a part of the tequila-making process. Ahh, we love a piece with so much history!