There’s something pleasingly old-fashioned about a sugar shaker, such as our Black Toast Sugar Shaker. It suggests leisurely cups of tea, unhurried conversation and a generous assortment of sandwiches (crusts cut off) and dainty cakes. A sugar dispenser is enormously practical too. No fiddly packets to tear open. None of the hard lumps that always seem to happen at the bottom of a sugar bowl. And no accidental clumps due to using a spoon that’s wet from stirring. A pottery sugar shaker is a completely sensible thing to have in the kitchen: our one does just what it’s meant to do and even tells you what it’s meant to do.