[Sca-cooks] Kitchen Scene by Campi

[Sue Clemenger]

Mud or snow or *other stuff* <g>.
We had a large one, about 2'x3', outside the backdoor at my folks' (the
back door being the one everyone came through, anyways....typical
farmhouse! <g>)
--maire, old farm geek

Adamantius wrote:
>

> Reading the above, Stefan, I'll throw this in just in case: a boot
> scraper is a gizmo, usually cast iron, that you bolt to the floor of
> your porch, vestibule, foyer, etc. The ones I've seen are in the form
> of a rectangular framework, maybe six or seven inches square, with a
> series of toothed bars. You scrape the soles and heels of your boots
> on the toothy bars, to remove impacted mud or snow, which falls
> between the bars, rather than being tracked into the house.