Oldest item in your kitchen?

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An antique Sad Iron with removable handle

Stamped:

Colebrookdale Iron Co.

1

Boyertown, PA, U.S.A.

From the late 1800s?

Aha. When we bought the house, some very old items from the
kitchen had been stashed in the garage -- including an iron,
and some of the original cabinets.

I think though I ditched the iron last time we had a major trash
hauling.

Steve

Steve Pope said...

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In article said:

An antique Sad Iron with removable handle

Stamped:

Colebrookdale Iron Co.

1

Boyertown, PA, U.S.A.

From the late 1800s?

Aha. When we bought the house, some very old items from the
kitchen had been stashed in the garage -- including an iron,
and some of the original cabinets.

I think though I ditched the iron last time we had a major trash
hauling.

Steve

Steve,

They probably made a million of them. On e-bay they're probably overpriced
at $5.00/ea.

Still a fun reminder of how stuff got done in those days.

Andy

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Mine is a gen-u-wine pre-World War II ice pick, probably dating back to
the 1920's. I used it today to make a starter hole for a cup hook.

What have you got?

Felice

Top three are:
A cookbook "The Complete Cook" dated 1869.
Club Aluminum Dutch oven from my grandmother, circa 1920
Me

My favorite section of meats from the book starts out "All types of
poultry should be killed the first thing in the morning when their crops
are empty. They should be plucked when they are warm"

Well, of course. Who wants to sit there and pluck a cold chicken? Gaaah!

Felice

Not usually a problem! My grandmother always dipped the carcass in a
bucket of scalding water before plucking it.

D.

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Blinky the Shark said:

Felice Friese said:

Mine is a gen-u-wine pre-World War II ice pick, probably dating back to the
1920's. I used it today to make a starter hole for a cup hook.

Me. 1947.

Hey, Sister, that's my year, too! :-) Feb. 19th.

Geezers...I'm a youngun from 1948 :-)

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

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Andy q said:

What a way to iron clothes!!!

I imagine it would work just fine. I remember, as a kid, Mom
sprinkling clothes with water to produce steam with her steamless
electic iron. I still miss Perm-Stach, a starch added to the wash
instead of sprayed on while ironing.

Okay, you triggered a memory lane moment. My mother used to have a
glass soda bottle (I swear I recall it being Pepsi) with some gadget
that was a sprinkler-stopper made for the purpose of sprinkling
clothes with water before ironing. It looked a lot like a tiny garden
watering can's spout with the little perforations for the water to
trickle out and a base surrounded with cork that wedged into the
bottle top.

And why did she also dampen the clothes off the clothes line that
needed to be ironed, put them in a plastic bag and then in the
refrigerator until she could get around to ironing them? It never
occurred to me until I was an adult that this seemed a strange
housekeeping practice.

I also remember Mother's electric mangle for ironing linens.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

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A couple of Mom's pots and pans. I'll guess that the cast aluminum
roaster (deep) is older than I am.

That's debatable... in the early 1900s aluminum was considered a
precious metal, right along with gold and platinum... it wasn't until
1914 that ALCOA was born and not until about 1925 that aluminum became
inexepensive enough that it could be used for ordinary household
products. I don't think cast aluminum cookware was produced prior to
about the mid 1930s, didn't become affordable until just prior to WWll
and then aluminum quickly became available for military use only.
Cast aluminum cookware really didn't come into its own until about
1946... odds are your mom acquired you first.

This shows it was available in 1930
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/food_nutrition/Home_Economics_n_Industry_L.htm

My Club Aluminum DO is from sometime in the 1920's. My mother remembers
when she was a kid (born 1923) her mother having it.

It may have been a rarity back then because aluminum was very expensive.

They offered stock in 1927 so have been in business at least that long.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F16FD345B12738DDDAE0894DF405B878EF1D3

In 1932, Club Aluminum was in financial trouble and was turned around by
Herbert Taylor
http://www.anbhf.org/laureates/htaylor.html

Club Aluminum was sold to Regal in 1984

"Terry Pulliam Burd" <[email hidden]> wrote

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And why did she also dampen the clothes off the clothes line that
needed to be ironed, put them in a plastic bag and then in the
refrigerator until she could get around to ironing them? It never
occurred to me until I was an adult that this seemed a strange
housekeeping practice.

That's how I was taught to iron. For reasons I never
understood, you had to let the clothing dry, then sprinkle
them with water, roll them up and put them into a plastic
bag. The suggestion that I just iron the stuff when it was still
damp just affirmed my stepmother's opinion that I was lazy.

Hey, so she was right. Heh.

nancy

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Me. 1947.

Dad has you beat.

Well, of course. He's yer *father*. 😉

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1932.

He is in the kitchen at least as much as me.

You have me beat as I was born in 1962.

I probably have most of the group beat. That's usually the case, since
I don't do alt.just.about.ready.to.expire . 🙂

I still like my 150 year old Chef's knife. ;-)
I oughta take a picture.

The blade is larger and heavier than anything you can get nowadays.
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Kate Connally said:

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Me. 1947.

Hey, Sister, that's my year, too! :-) Feb. 19th.

Photo of this "sister":

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/hrocksm.jpg

June 25, for me, old-timer. 🙂

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Ooh, long hair!

I like that on a man. :-)
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Terry Pulliam Burd said:

And why did she also dampen the clothes off the clothes line that
needed to be ironed, put them in a plastic bag and then in the
refrigerator until she could get around to ironing them? It never
occurred to me until I was an adult that this seemed a strange
housekeeping practice.

They went into the freezer to prevent mildew.

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I also remember Mother's electric mangle for ironing linens.
Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

We had one, too. But it wasn't in the kitchen,

OB Food: I'm making up a recipe to enter in the Ghirardelli Chocolate
contest at the Fair tomorrow. Can't be anything that's been published.
Drat! I've got a good brownie recipe. . . .

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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - Fair baking

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Felice Friese said:

Mine is a gen-u-wine pre-World War II ice pick, probably dating back to the
1920's. I used it today to make a starter hole for a cup hook.

What have you got?

Felice

I'm not sure how old they are, but I have an egg beater and A&P pie tin
that belonged to my grandmother. I also have some old Mason jars and a
Great Bear water bottle, but they're on display in the living room.

Cindy

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Hooboy, is that ugly. Replacements Ltd. has all sorts of kitschyness.
I used to enjoy going there when we lived in Greensboro and see what
stuff they had.

Cindy

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Top three are:
A cookbook "The Complete Cook" dated 1869.
Club Aluminum Dutch oven from my grandmother, circa 1920
Me

My favorite section of meats from the book starts out "All types of
poultry should be killed the first thing in the morning when their crops
are empty. They should be plucked when they are warm"

Ah! Forgot about the cookbooks. I collect old ones. Oldest one I think
dates back to 1912.

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Kate Connally said:

Blinky the Shark wrote:

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> Me. 1947.

Hey, Sister, that's my year, too! :-) Feb. 19th.

Photo of this "sister":

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/hrocksm.jpg

June 25, for me, old-timer. 🙂

Ooh, long hair!

I like that on a man. :-)

That was during a run of 12 years without a haircut.

I have it shorter now, and the full beard (one lasted 22 years without
being removed) is down to a moustache and chin beard.

But the sharkness remains. 😉

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Terry Pulliam Burd said:

Okay, you triggered a memory lane moment. My mother used to have a
glass soda bottle (I swear I recall it being Pepsi) with some gadget
that was a sprinkler-stopper made for the purpose of sprinkling
clothes with water before ironing. It looked a lot like a tiny garden
watering can's spout with the little perforations for the water to
trickle out and a base surrounded with cork that wedged into the
bottle top.

And it was made of thin metal, wasn't it?

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And why did she also dampen the clothes off the clothes line that
needed to be ironed, put them in a plastic bag and then in the
refrigerator until she could get around to ironing them? It never
occurred to me until I was an adult that this seemed a strange
housekeeping practice.

I also remember Mother's electric mangle for ironing linens.

How about a wringer? I can remember my grandmother using a wringer.
And a big stainless straight-sided laundry tub, and agitating the
clothes with what I remember as being like a big maybe inch-and-a-half
around piece of dowel probably a couple feet long.

And when the coal bin in the basement got converted into a food storage
room, when the coal furnace got replaced with an oil burner.

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Blinky the Shark said:

Omelet said:

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Shark said:

Kate Connally wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:

>> Me. 1947.
>
> Hey, Sister, that's my year, too! :-) Feb. 19th.

Photo of this "sister":

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/hrocksm.jpg

June 25, for me, old-timer. 🙂

Ooh, long hair!

I like that on a man. :-)

That was during a run of 12 years without a haircut.

I have it shorter now, and the full beard (one lasted 22 years without
being removed) is down to a moustache and chin beard.

But the sharkness remains. 😉

They make some good vitamin lotions for that now <eg>

Did you submit that pic for the mugshot page?
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Cindy Fuller said:

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jmcquown said:

http://www.replacements.com/webquote/MYOCHBG.htm

Hooboy, is that ugly. Replacements Ltd. has all sorts of kitschyness.
I used to enjoy going there when we lived in Greensboro and see what
stuff they had.

Cindy

It was from the waning era of Victorianism. Everything was gaudy back then.
You can understand why I went with white with a simple lattice pattern
around the edge. It doesn't scream at you 😉

Jill

Felice Friese said:

Mine is a gen-u-wine pre-World War II ice pick, probably dating back to the
1920's. I used it today to make a starter hole for a cup hook.

What have you got?

The dinner plates we use every day were my grandmother's, her wedding
dinner set, Wedgewood Celadon, 1930.
I also have a tea set which was hers, white porcelain with delicate
pink and green flowers and a gold rim, it must be early 20th or even
late 19th century.

Nathalie in Switzerland

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:44:57 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email hidden]>

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"Felice Friese" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Mine is a gen-u-wine pre-World War II ice pick, probably dating back to
the 1920's. I used it today to make a starter hole for a cup hook.

What have you got?

Felice

Top three are:
A cookbook "The Complete Cook" dated 1869.
Club Aluminum Dutch oven from my grandmother, circa 1920
Me

My favorite section of meats from the book starts out "All types of poultry
should be killed the first thing in the morning when their crops are empty.
They should be plucked when they are warm"

Not in my kitchen, but in my living room, I have a cookbook written by
my great-great-grandmother's cook. The recipe vor veal feet begins
with "Prenez vos pieds, et plongez-les dans l'eau bouillante"...
("Take your feet, and plunge them into boiling water"😉. ROTFL.
It's a totally unusable book, not a quantity or a timing in sight, but
I love reading it.

Nathalie in Switzerland

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Not really. Only that he wanted to distinguish the father of his mother
and the farther of his father/

So it's only a question of liking 🙂))))))))))))))))))))

No, of precision.

Nathalie in Switzerland, daughter of anthropologists