Saturday Stories: A Show & Tell

For this week's Saturday Stories, I am sharing some kitchen tools that have been in our family for a long time. I haven't run out of family stories, but as I am in Seattle for the next two weeks, I thought some easy post scheduling was in order.

This was Nonny's.  It was what she used to make bubbles in her dish water.  

Those brown pieces of soap are actually some of the soap she made, over 45 years ago.  

This is a nutmeg grater.  The top (at the right) opens to reveal a space to keep the unused whole nutmeg.

This is a butter paddle.

This is a butter mold, as is the picture below.

Here is an old cutting board.

This was Mamie's crinkle cutter.

This was Gram's curling iron.  It sat on the wood stove and heated up.

This is a meat fork.

This nifty gadget was a corer, a peeler and a crinkle peeler.

These cookie cutters are old.

This was Mamie's potato ricer.

This was Mamie's grandmother's (my great great grandmother's) bean pot.  She served her family of five and  the boarders she took in with this little pot.  It holds maybe 4 cups.  Her husband was an alcoholic.  He sold the family's stove one day for money for booze.

This was for drying ears of corn.

 

This was Nonny's cake pan.  It is at least 3 cups smaller than today's pans.  An interesting statement about how much dessert we eat nowadays?

 

This is the coolest coffee pot.  It actually sat down in the hole on top of the wood burning stove.

 

This is an egg basket.  It flattens out completely or becomes really tall and thin.  

Do you have anything that your family used long ago?

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