[Sca-cooks] Re: Heirloom gadgets

[Kerri Martinsen]

My favorite is my sifter..  Not the carpal-tunnel making grip ones, or the
hand crank kind.
The one my mom used (and I now have)  is a 2 cup metal container with a
simple wire loop on the bottom screen that goes up the side to a simple wire
loop as a handle.  You can take your index finger and knock the handle back
and forth to sift - simple, easy and no pain.  Wish they still made them -
took 6 years of antique store hopping to find one.

Vitha
--
Lady Hrosvitha von Celle
Per pale sable and gules, a fret and on a point pointed argent a pair of
shears inverted sable.



>
> Margaret, you are advising Granny on methods of sucking an egg.  New???
> I have been making spritz cookies with an identical gun for the past FIFTY
> YEARS!!!  Same pattern plates too.  And it was used by my mom for at least
> a decade before that (if not longer).  What planets have some of you cooks
> been living on?  I even have two of them.  They ARE quite easy to use and
> about idiot proof.  As to liquidity of the dough, you have to REFRIGERATE
> it (and it already is pretty stiff) to keep from getting a blob instead of a
> desired shape.
> Ahh the fond memories of getting the green jadite swirl mixing bowl of batter
> leavings
> as a young child!  Still have a full set of jadite I use that mom mixed the
> spritz dough in
> on an old GE mixer (wish I had that too!).
> (chuckling) Babes, mere babes in the woods.
> Perhaps some of our older cooks should share info on long proven worth of
> absolutely
> essential gadgets like spritz guns, krumkaka irons, jadite bowls and 1930 era
> mechanical
> orange juicers.  The digital kitchen crap they put out these days is only
> worth stocking my
> garage sale table IMO!  The best source for obtaining these great old kitchen
> goodies
> incidentally is EBAY.
>