[Sca-cooks] Re: ice cube tray

[Olwen the Odd]

Devra, you left off the part of freezing your wet fingers to the second 
tray!  Heck, how could anyone forget how much *that* experience engraved 
agony on the mind?? (yet we seemed to repeat it almost daily!)
Olwen

>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

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