A fun what is it for you!

[oldgoaly]

I'm working on it, missing wood handles, a tool for making some of your favorite things to eat! (hint)

[Northwoods]

Well, since HAUPT is German for HEAD, the gadget is obviously used to turn pork into head cheese!
Do I get a prize?

[oldgoaly]

I think Haupt is the maker?
much more tasty than head cheese!

[oldgoaly]

I made some new handles for it. looks better with them on, they still need sanding and a varnish.

[bill300d]

Is that for cutting doughnuts?

[oldgoaly]

Yes sir! could be used for bagels too.

[Aunt Phil]

Yes sir! could be used for bagels too.

Not likely. Bagel start out like pretzels, long rods that get stretched & welded.

Most likely a dumpling sealer/ cutter.

[Plyerman]

Man you could really crank out the donuts/dumplings with that thing!

[oldgoaly]

The wife has a couple of donut cookers but I can not find a pic of hers. They are made in St.Louis fairly common around here. this pic is off the net.
Don't know what kind of dumpling Aunt Phil makes but around here we call them donuts or doughnuts.

[Aunt Phil]

OG that's a frycake iron.

Donuts are raised yeast dough that gets cooked in hot oil

Frycakes are a batter product

[oldgoaly]

Aunt Phil, I'm guessing your not from around here! <grin>
fry cakes? never heard of them.  can you read the casting? 
Funny when people from different parts of the country guess where I'm from they almost always say western New York, nope.
yes I do say zedd, ham radio, and I'm a hockey goalie, we do play hockey down here.

[turnnut]

years ago in Palmer, MA,  "my birth town, there was a shop that sold "SPUDNUTS".

it was donuts made with potato in the dough,  somewhat like they make potato bread today. yes, they were good.

[oldgoaly]

potato flour is good! spud bread is good!
not many local bakeries left around here.

[Aunt Phil]

Got no idea where you are OG.
I started out so far back the village didn't have a name, nor did the road going to it.

I learned a lot of cooking in kid prison in Necrapbraska

I am still learning cooking.

A doughnut is cooked in hot oil, and it's raised yeast dough.

Frycakes can be either fried in an iron like you show, often done in the coals of a wood fire in the same manner as a dutch oven, or they can be dropped into hot oil to cook as well.  Frycakes are a batter dough with baking powder. 

Tater doughnuts and tater bread can cover a lot of territory, and most are damn good eating. 
If I ever find the rat bastich who swiped my tater bread recipe I intend to break his/her fingers.

[oldgoaly]

the donut cooker is for a fire, no hot oil, whale blubber is for the lamps~