[Sca-cooks] Re: Heirloom gadgets

[Nicholas S. Malone]

If your really into Heirloom gadgets I have a hammered iron sheet
skillet from at least 1450's ish, but could be older!

Kerri Martinsen wrote:
> 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.
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> Vitha
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> Lady Hrosvitha von Celle
> Per pale sable and gules, a fret and on a point pointed argent a pair of
> shears inverted sable.
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>>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.
>>
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