[Sca-cooks] Me, was Eskimo ice cream

[Huette von Ahrens]

Even smaller world is that my mundane first name
is Patricia.

My mother received several hand-wrought aluminum
trays as wedding gifts in 1947.  I love those so
much, that whenever in the past thirty years she
has tried giving them away, I forestall her. 
Since I started thriftstoring, I have picked up
a whole lot more for fifty cents to a dollar.
Although that is becoming a rarer find.  I now
am finding more at flea markets and antique
stores.  I have seen a lot on eBay, but the 
prices there become too inflated too fast for my
taste.

I only use them for buffets now where they can be
overseen, mostly because of a banquet I did a 
long time ago, where I was using cheap 
99centstore trays [these were metal trays that
looked silver, not the aluminum foil disposable
trays], and several came back with holes in them.
 I think that this was because I had had whole
chickens on them, but in order to punch holes in
the trays, a whole lot of force had to be used.  
I decided from that banquet on I would never use
trays that I had an emotional attachment to where
I couldn't control who did what to it.  The holey
trays got quickly discarded and replaced.  I 
would have cried if that had happened to any of 
my wrought aluminum trays.

Huette

--- Patricia Collum <pjc2 at cox.net> wrote:
> Hey, I collect hand-wrought aluminum, too!
> Small world... I've used it to
> serve non-reactive foods at feasts a couple of
> times.
> 
> Cecily
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Huette von Ahrens" <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
> 
> <snip>  I collect hand-wrought
> > aluminum ware from the '40s and '50s, art
> glass
> > paperweights, etchings and cheap touristy
> wooden
> > Viking dolls. <snip>
> > Is that enough?  Or shall I go on?
> >
> > Huette
> 
> 
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