[Sca-cooks] Airing cupboard

[Elaine Koogler]

Wow!  You covered all of the bases, didn't you?  And to think, you're
continuing your winning ways as a grown-up...or is that a little boy living
in a big boy's body?

Kiri

Craig Jones wrote:

> Not even close.
>
> An Airing cupboard is where your linen is stored (sheets, towels, tea
> towels (dish wipers), etc.  It can also, when quite large, be used for
> drying clothing (tradition airing cupboards were used for this) as the
> hot water heater is usually in there and it can get quite hot and dry in
> there.
>
> Funny story alert:
>
> When I was 3 (and a complete horror), I locked my mother in the airing
> cupboard, at Mom and Dad's first house in Southhampton, by shoulder
> charging the door and smashing the lock.  While she was trying to escape
> (it took 2 hours), I ran amock in the house and threw flour over
> everything...
>
> When she finally escaped, she calmly grabbed the vaccuum cleaner to
> clean up the flour, except she'd discovered I'd cut a hole in the bag
> with a pair of scissors... Flour dust settling over the freshly washed
> Venetian Blinds! Later that week my father discovered that I'd put holes
> in all 90-odd of his oil paints with a modelling knife.  I was almost
> sold into slavery that week.
>
> BadBadBadDrakey (Aussie and ex POM (prisoner of motherland...))
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Chip
> Sent: Saturday, 15 December 2001 6:55 AM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Airing cupboard
>
> > Will you please tell this American what an airing cupboard is.
> > Olwen
>
> My guess would be what used to be called a pie safe.  Basically, it's
> a cabinet with hole-ridden sheet metal for door panels and wall
> panels.  You could put pies, bread & whatnot (can't forget the
> whatnot) to cool on its shelves & not worry about flies or probing
> fingers.
>
> Was I close?
>
> Iyad ibn al-Thu'ban ibn Bisharo
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Elaine Koogler

     "A stroke of the brush does not guarantee Art from the bristles"

                                                     --  Kosh