[Sca-cooks] Favorite spice containers

[Susan Fox]

Maggie MacDonald wrote:
> At 11:47 AM 10/5/2006,Sharon Gordon said something like:
>   
>> What are your favorite period and OOP spice containers?  I am trying to 
>> avoid plastic ones in either case.
>>
>> Sharon
>> gordonse at one.net
>>     
>
> I would like to have long racks of little cork topped hand thrown clay 
> containers, but .. labelling would be an issue (I'm not so good at 
> labelling and keeping labels current).  I've also got 3 shelves of one 
> entire wall cabinet that are devoted just about solely to just herbs, 
> spices, etc. So theres a LOT of containers to keep track of.
Well, we just got another ceramics expert in-kingdom, and I just scored 
a new set of alphabet stamps.  Maybe we should make some up pre-labelled!

In the meantime, I try to collect the little wooden boxes in which tea 
is sometimes sold, and keep my "poudre douce" and other frequently-used 
mixtures therein.

Just a thought, Selene