[Sca-cooks] Re: ice cube tray

[Devra at aol.com]

Well, see, when rocks were soft...  and refrigerators only had a teeny, weeny 
freezer compartment, with two small shelves...  You got an ice cube tray for 
each shelf.  The trays were metal, probably aluminium, about 4'x8-9'x1' deep.  
They were just shallow pans, and into them you fitted a metal divider, with a 
long part and enough short pieces going perpendicular to divide the tray into 
shapes you'd recognize as standard ice cubes.  When the ice was frozen, you'd 
loosen the cubes by running hot water across the underside of the tray, and 
pulling, and tipping the tray over, and shaking, and cursing, and the divider 
and cubes would fall out.  Fancier dividers had a lever-handle built into the 
central part of the divider, and you could remove the cubes by pulling up on 
the lever.  Of course, if you didn't put the divider in, you had a nice shallow 
tray that would fit into the freezer.
     Devra



Devra Langsam
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