 | Aprons | Feb 1, '08 6:43 PM
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Aprons
I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the
peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that "old-time apron" that served so many
purposes.
Send this to those who would know, and love the story about Grandma's aprons.
REMEMBER -
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
 | Nice one, talking of "Aprons" I came to think of a folk song "The Masons Apron"
John. |
 | John for some reason there is a double entry..here is your reply.
Wonder what happened.
This looks as though it has been posted twice...now I have no idea how this happened. Gosh that is the first time that has happened to me...has it happened to you before?
Paula |
| Yes Paula,
I often get teased by some silly fail or other, but then that's Windows for you!
John. |
 | Bill's always telling me I should wear an apron as I'm forever wrecking some of my good sweaters with spatter from cooking. He's right really, but try to find one. My mother and grandmother used to make their own. The other day, going through the boxes my mother left me with old family photos and the like, were several pot holders she had made. My grandmother was born in 1880 and my mother in 1911. She was the 5th of 8. Busy family! |
| You sound like me Marcia. LOL I have tried wearing one of those aprons which tie at the waste and you can bet I get a spatter which is nowhere near my apron. I then decided to buy the full length ones...they were for a laugh intiailly, they are a vinly and they can just be washed down if they get dirty but oh they are sooo hot..so I am back to where I started. LOL
Marcia I dont know what your pot holders are like are they pretty thin, and just for pots? The reason I ask is a lady crocheted a thick holder which I use for the teapot...it was not designed to do this but it saves it sliding about. Those things you buy for your teapot dont keep it in place and this works really well. LOL yes sounds a busy family. However my Grandmother came from a large family and she had five of a family. I think long ago, most families were pretty large...it is amazing when you think about how little money there was back then...but they all managed.
Paula |
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Yes Paula,