Dutch hand

plural Dutch hands

1. in pluralA wooden paddle, typically one of a pair, used to press butter when making it at home.

   Ranged on shelves along the stone walls would be pans of milk set to rise, buckets and cans, maturing cheeses, butter churns, and butter pats or "Dutch hands" for beating the last traces of water from the golden mass.

   1977, Richard Daunton-Fear and Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977 (discussing a typical kitchen of early colonial Australia)

   Synonyms: butter pat