[Sca-cooks] obscure measurements

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

I remember cheese glasses that were like brandy glasses... with this 
black diamond shaped pattern. I think there may still be one kicking 
around somewhere - either here (my grandmother's old place) or in my 
mom's things. I know I came across one not that long ago...  Though I'm 
quite sure no one in my family ever used anything like it for brandy - 
we did have crystal -  can't remember what they did use them for!

Shrimp cocktail still comes in glasses with the odd lids. And I'm trying 
to remember if it was that, or another cheese glass, that had a sort of 
a footed stem...

Now, jelly glasses, in this context,  were the Welch's Grape Jelly ones 
with cartoon characters on them. Ours were Flintstones...  They were a 
lot bigger - not the jelly glasses I use to make jelly, but rather 8 oz 
tumblers one used to drink one's milk with one's PBJ, or, conversely, 
bologna, sandwiches for lunch.

Now, juice glasses... There was this custom that one drank a small 
glass  of (usually) orange juice first thing in the morning. For your 
Vitamin C. You wanted a small amount because you were then still going 
to consume your coffee, your milk on your cereal, whatever... and 
there's a limit to the amount of liquid one wants! (And OJ with milk is 
pretty horrid...) It didn't seem to occur to anyone I knew to drink 
juice at any other time of the day. Even if you liked it. (Children, of 
course, drank milk with meals - adults tea or coffee.) So of course you 
made sure you got it in the mornings... and we took our vitamins with 
it. And my father seemed convinced that we would get scurvy without 
it... Mom made a small frozen concentrate, which is 3 cups, every 
morning, and the four of us drank it. So we were extravagant - 6 ounces 
each!

AEllin

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote: <Snipped>

>
> Yeah, the basic difference between it and a small jar is that the top 
> had to be removed with a bottle opener (usually) rather than by 
> twisting it off. And because you had to deform it just slightly to 
> remove it and to make it subsequently removable, assuming you didn't 
> immediately empty the container, it never fit quite well on the 
> container again. The most common form of this container used to be the 
> "jelly glass", which I've seen people re-use for jelly, under a thick 
> layer of melted paraffin as a seal. But I think there used to be a 
> small-size Cheez Whiz (possibly Cheez Whiz garni au pimiento -- Ooh, 
> lah lah!) that was sold in this... um... genteel... form.
>
> What, if anything, now comes in such packaging? I seem to recall 
> getting a jar of anchovies sealed in this way, a few years ago. 
> _Great_ product to have in a non-resealable container, huh? Maybe 
> something with garlic, while we're at it. Maybe some leaking oil?
>
>
> There is a funny little sort of plastic thimble that you sometimes see 
> as part of a diner's Sunday breakfast special, if you order that kind 
> of thing. Looks like it might hold two or three ounces of OJ. My point 
> was only that the "cheese glasses" previously referred to were 
> approximately the same size and shape as a four-ounce juice glass, and 
> for many people, I suppose, such products were the source for their 
> everyday glassware.
>
> I actually had occasion to look through our assortment of glassware 
> the other day. Probably looking for something to pour champagne into, 
> and noted that I probably have more jelly glasses, 
> fast-food-restaurant promo glasses, etc., than I do real glasses, and 
> the truly frightening thing is that there's a chance some of the jelly 
> glasses are more valuable (as collector's items) than the crystal 
> champagne flutes.
>
>
> Adamantius
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