General Chat

I don't have any pans, or pie plates etc .......................... emigrating immediately we married meant I didn't bring that kind of stuff with me, nor did I collect any when I went back for Dad's funeral.

One of my work colleagues gave us a gorgeous pan ................. pottery, brown outside and blue inside. Unfortunately, I heard a cracking noise the first time I used it ............. so it became one of the first pottery pieces I began to collect. I don't know if it would have been better on a gas ring, or used in the oven.


I do have Mum's old wooden rolling pin. She died in 1961, Dad took one look at the rolling pin that a child gave us as a wedding present, and immediately replaced it with Mum's ............... he said Mum's was a much better weight, and I might make better pastry with it :-)


I think I've said before on another thread that we still have, and use every day as we have for almost 47 years, the china service that OH's mother gave us.

We've never had any other service, this one has been both every day and "best". It is a Royal Doulton pattern that they brought out in 1966 for young marrieds ........... a little bit cheaper than regular RD. We were able to buy a dinner service for 12, a tea service for 12 AND 2 casseroles, 2 serving platters, cake plate, 2 gravy boats, milk jug and sugar bowl for less than the amount that Mum said she was willing to spend. I bought 6 extra dinner plates at an Old Patterns china shop about 6 years ago.

The pattern has worn off about 9 of the 11 dinner plates of the original set that survived, but every other piece is almost perfect in spite of the daily use


We did think about buying a complete new set for our 40th anniversary ........... but couldn't find a pattern I really liked that didn't cost an arm and a leg. So we compromised when I found the plates in that shop ................... now we have 8 perfect dinner plates for when we have people for dinner. Which is not very common these days :-)

We also still have the cutlery set OH's aunt gave us, plus another set that we bought about 10 years later and that is kept for "best" or large numbers ......... the first set was only for 6 while the one we bought was for 12.

Have you met my father Bob? I sold a whole lot of his stuff to a second hand dealer including a frying pan where he had made a wooden handle.. it was a great pan cause the wood did not get hot like the aluminium handle did... most of our pot lids had wooden cotton reels.

I bought a car in 1973 and the window winder handle broke and he put a little black wooden cotton reel on it and I always meant to buy a replacement. I sold it in 1975 made a $25.00 profit on it as well and forgot that it still had its cotton reel handle.

My father was a bushman and he had some wonderful ways of fixing things or making things.. He used a couple of long tree branches on top of the fence out the back and someone asked if that was where he hitched his horse. He made do with whatever was available.

Liz

My Corning casseroles have a blue pattern on the side :-)

Sylvia, I still have a Corning casserole dish altho I think the lid got broken many years back. I won it on bingo at a holiday resort I went to with my family, last family holiday at a quiet little place. It was the start of my Bottom Drawer lol You could fit a handle to the side of the dish to make it a saucepan, it was white with a blue pattern on it., it's very worn now tho.

I brought my Mum's chip pan away when she died and we cleared the house. Coincidentally it was 19 years ago today that she died.

i haven't used it but it just reminds me of the great fish and chips she used to make and of the time she managed to pour boiling fat over her thumb one day. She bandaged it up and went on to build us kids a makeshift sledge as it was snowing outside.

Lizx

I love my old Prestige stainless steel knives ....... I gradually bought, 1 at a time, a set from chef's down to vegetable knife between 1963 and 1967.


I still have them

They all have wooden handles, so I have never put them in the dishwasher ........... one was put in by some heathen. I spent a long time rubbing the handle with oil to try to get it back to its shiny self.


Some have the blades worn down in the centre part due to sharpening.


But I prefer them to my more modern Henckel kitchen knives.


I still have a couple of Corning casseroles given to us as wedding presents in August 1967 .......... pattern no longer made of course!

I lost my veggie knife. I bought a new one, the same make, but in the past 25 years, they've changed the shape :-(

It's also very very sharp, and I have small cuts all over my thumb.
Roll on when it's become a 'proper' slightly blunt veggie knife.

I have an old chip pan that I've had since we got married 45 years ago (don't like deep fat fryers). Last week I bought a new stainless steel one as the basket on my old pan is dropping to bits.

However I haven't been able to bring myself to use the new one yet as I have the feeling it won't be as good and doesn't "feel" quite right - but hubby is moaning because I have thrown out all the packaging so couldn't take it back even if I wanted to. Why don't things last for ever? I really can't cope with change!!! (my old potato peeler is on it's way out too.)

Kath. x

I had an aluminium one, for years, the plastic handle broke up so I replaced that bit with wood cotton reels,,,,,,,eventually the stub broke off from the pan,( as I assume yours has done )
Sad innit when an old trusted faithful servant bites the dust, as it were........new ones just aint the same, are they?

Bob

AnnCardiff, I did try but the shop isn't there anymore lol. :-(

Just goes to show.........fings ain't what they used to be!

:-D

you just can't get the quality can you :-D could you take it back to the shop:-D

Has just fallen to pieces, well the handle fell off, my Mum gave it to me when I got married in 1978, it was hers but she bought a new for herself so I could have that one, it's not that old, it as a wedding present for when she got married in 1948, things just don't last very long do they! :-D