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Keeping in Touch:  What's vintage in your kitchen?  |
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mandashell
True Blue Farmgirl
61 Posts
Amanda
Norco
California
USA
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foreverbooks
True Blue Farmgirl
514 Posts
Carole
Tombstone
AZ
USA
514 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 12:28:13 PM
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You mean other than the "cook"! Sorry couldn't resist! :-)
Carole
Arizona Farmgirl Sister #2556 |
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DeborahLee
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Deborah
Starkville
Mississippi
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 1:00:21 PM
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Great post! I have an vintage Sunbeam Mixmaster from my Mom. I'm not sure of the year but it is a great 60's green color. I've been a little wary of the wiring and not used it---but I can't bear to part with it either. Maybe I will dig it out and give it a try, just to see what it will do.
As for other vintage items, I have lots. I love 50's and 60's era dishes and kitchenware, especially Pyrex. I don't know why, but I'm convinced that casseroles taste better when cooked in a vintage Pryex dish!
Deborah
Professor, librarian, writer and farmgirl! |
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Heartbroken farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
604 Posts
Annette
rio vista
Ca
USA
604 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 1:14:31 PM
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All my dishes are vintage, gifts from my grandmother, to my mom, then on to me. So are my cast iron skillets. My hand mixer was too, same avacado green as Deborah's stand mixer, but my DH tried to mix cookie dough with it, and it said "no thank you", and went ka-put:(
The tears I shed then, watered the flowers I harvest now.
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 1:27:35 PM
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Fun post, fun blog!
The only things that aren't vintage in my kitchen are my stove, sink, disdrainer and fridge. I do have "newer" handmade stoneware dishes from England, but supplemental dessert plates and fire king from the 50's, and most of my baking ware and mixing bowls are all from the 1940's and 1950's (Westinghouse) and 50's era pyrex. And I use it all. I even have an old percolator for coffee. My chimney cabinet that holds all my pantry goods is a Sellers brand,from 1920; my Kromex cannisters (from Cookie all the way to tea) belonged to my Grandmother. I have vintage cookbooks on display, vintage linen towesl that we use daily for drying hands and dishes and lots of early kitchen flour sifters that sit as simple decoration. My kitchen table, a work in progress, is an old farm table from the mid to late 1800's and we've been stripping off the years of paint to reveal a really beautiful cherry wood.
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1145 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
1145 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 1:51:07 PM
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Nuts...most of everything I have is vintage, antique or looks that way! :0) Can't imagine it any other way. I LOVE my Pyrex refrigerator storage cubes! Why did we ever get away from those?
FarmGirl #1390
www.mylittlecountry.wordpress.com |
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Turtlemoon
Farmgirl Legend Schoolmarm
378 Posts
Tanya
Port Orchard
Washington
USA
378 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 2:15:12 PM
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I agree with the above, if i can find it vintage i will get it before buying new. Would love an old mixer!
Raggedy Ann stuck in a Barbie Doll World
FarmGirl#1737
http://www.etsy.com/shop/moonhonu |
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Penny Wise
True Blue Farmgirl
1903 Posts
Margo
Elyria
OH
USA
1903 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 3:21:17 PM
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Originally posted by foreverbooks
You mean other than the "cook"! Sorry couldn't resist! :-)
Carole
Arizona Farmgirl Sister #2556
carol!!!!!!you read my thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Farmgirl # 2139
~*~ counting my pennies and biding my time; my dreams are adding up!~*~ |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 3:56:54 PM
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| What a great topic! I have several vintage things in my 1909 farmhouse's kitchen and I love them all. Something I no longer have, though, is most newsworthy for this forum: a sister Farmgirl now has (and is using!) our 1920s wood-burning "Victor Junior" stove in her home. We've since renovated, but have managed to bring out more of the vintage features and "feeling" of the room. I love it! We should all post pix of our kitchens. I'd love to seem them all. |
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Candy C.
True Blue Farmgirl
823 Posts
Candy
Mescal
AZ
USA
823 Posts |
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sidavis
True Blue Farmgirl
125 Posts
Susan
Vero Beach
Fl
USA
125 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 6:03:35 PM
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My husband has collected Griswold cast iron frying pans but I''m not allowed to use them sinced I washed one in soap and water. Yikes! You would have thought I committed a crime!
Susan
OK, I'm ready-Let's go. |
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1145 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
1145 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 8:19:31 PM
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Lol, I have washed mine w/ soap and water before, too. It's so seasoned that there's no way it would 'un-do' all of it! It's so easy to re-season one, anyway. Now I use my little plastic scraper and hot water most of the time, but when the handle gets too greasy to hold, yes, I wash with a very mild soap.
FarmGirl #1390
www.mylittlecountry.wordpress.com |
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
2914 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 8:38:54 PM
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I have a saucepan that is older than I am (my dad used it to pop popcorn when I was young). The handle on it is cracked but it's still good. I have a little food chopper that belonged to my mom that I remember using when I was little. I like to browse antique stores and look at the old kitchen gadgets. I have a vintage flour sifter and meat grinder and a metal bread box that I found at antique stores. Now if I could only cook like my grandma...
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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sidavis
True Blue Farmgirl
125 Posts
Susan
Vero Beach
Fl
USA
125 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 06:38:28 AM
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So Amanda, how do I re-season this pancake griddle? I might surprise my hubby.
Susan
OK, I'm ready-Let's go. |
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Sandy Fields
True Blue Farmgirl
165 Posts
Sandy
Portales
NM
165 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 09:57:38 AM
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Many, many vintage things in my kitchen, and I love seeing them daily. They all belonged to special family members. Maybe my favorite of all is the potato masher that belonged to my Nana. A wooden handle, and a curly-zig-zag pattern of metal for smashing. I don't use it, but it sits out on my chop-block island and makes me so happy to see it!
Love writing about "My Field Days"
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Turtlemoon
Farmgirl Legend Schoolmarm
378 Posts
Tanya
Port Orchard
Washington
USA
378 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 5:30:10 PM
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lol, hubby is the one i have to stop from using soap on the cast iron, lol
Raggedy Ann stuck in a Barbie Doll World
FarmGirl#1737
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BalancingAct
True Blue Farmgirl
297 Posts
Jackie
Hoosierville
USA
297 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 6:43:42 PM
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I have vintage tupperware glasses that I grew up with and my grandparents wanted to get rid of. I also have a vintage butter crock.
Farmgirl Sister #2851 -"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Joey
True Blue Farmgirl
1868 Posts
Joey
Gulf Coast
FL
USA
1868 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 7:28:49 PM
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My husband is usually in the kitchen and is vintage. The rest of my life is in storage where I have my great grandmothers wedding china from 1900 and all my old Fiestaware that I have collected since 1973 because I love the colors. I have an old pie safe and a hoosher (?) cabinet with the built in flour sifter. I have many things from my Nana..lots of old 1950s holiday decorations that I love. Here in my Florida kitchen I have pyrex cassarole dishes from my mother and 2 potato mashers with wooden handles..my Moms and my Nanas. This is very cool--my aunt just sent me a bunch of buttons from my Nana who died in 1975. I am sending some of those tiny white buttons that were all on little girls dresses (my Nana had 6 girls and sewed for them all) to a Farmgirl friend who is going to sew them on a hat for my grand-daughter..5 generations thru buttons. It touches my heart and my Nana would be so pleased. Joey
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Bensgrandma
True Blue Farmgirl
227 Posts
Alexis
White Oak
PA
USA
227 Posts |
Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 05:50:48 AM
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Old wood rolling pins have not been mentioned yet. I have 3 from my mom and an old Jiffy Popcorn popper. It goes on the stove and has a metal stirring handle. It was silver but is black on the bottome from use. Could not part with those items. Lots of vintage dishes, which we use because I figure it is better to use them than just let them sit.
I am in the process of destashing a few items in my etsy stores but those are mainly vintage garden/tool items. I don't think I could part with my kitchen items.
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BalancingAct
True Blue Farmgirl
297 Posts
Jackie
Hoosierville
USA
297 Posts |
Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 11:07:47 AM
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Joann, I believe that would be a "Hoosier" cabinet. Would love to see a picture of it, especially with the built-in flour sifter. My g-grandmother had a small one.
Farmgirl Sister #2851 -"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Edited by - BalancingAct on Jun 05 2011 11:30:50 AM |
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duckmama
True Blue Farmgirl
54 Posts
Robin
Minnesota
USA
54 Posts |
Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 11:41:09 AM
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My vintage collection is mainly tools/ utensils. Egg beaters, meat forks, flour sifter, rolling pins and such. I still use them all regulerly. I even have some of my grandfathers knifes with his intials carved in the handles ( he was a chef). I also use alot of cast iron, but I have such a mix of old and newer I have no idea which is which anymore.
Duckmama
Robin
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Driven 2 Distraction
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Designing Green
Living Green |
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Mariebelle
True Blue Farmgirl
54 Posts
Marie
Clarkston
WA
USA
54 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 3:24:17 PM
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I would love a bigger kitchen to put more vintage things in. I have a Hoosier cabinet that we started refinishing, then set it aside, unfortunately it's not finished, but it's ok as i don't have the room in my kitchen anyway. Someday that will be finished and a much welcome vintage member to my kitchen. I have dishes, rolling pins, aprons, table cloths, bakeware, pots, utensils, etc and just love it all. I try to use it as much as i can as well as display some. I love shopping for more when we travel to new places i always check out that towns antique stores.
I don't know why we've done away with these great items, i prefer old over new, especially those with a story.
Born in the wrong era...
Marie |
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letpeoplewonder
Farmgirl in Training
15 Posts
Leslie
Greensboro
NC
USA
15 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 10:56:59 AM
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we have a lot of vintage glass: grandma's mason jars, milk bottles for flower vases/juice decanters, and french canning jars. my favorite piece would have to be our metal, three-tiered pie rack. its the best display after a day of baking...people just don't know what to say when they come in and see buttermilk pies cooling on the counter!
why can't i be more conventional? people talk, people stare, so i try. but that can't be, because i can't see, my strange little world just go passing me by...so let people wonder... |
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
4928 Posts |
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embchicken
True Blue Farmgirl
1487 Posts
Elaine
Ocean
NJ
USA
1487 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 11:18:57 AM
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I am so lucky - I have my grandmother's vintage fiesta ware bowls. I remember being a little girl and watching her make all sorts of delightful things for us to eat using those bowls!
~ Elaine
Farmgirl sister #2822
"Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things." ~Saki
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SheilaC
True Blue Farmgirl
1948 Posts
Sheila
Vermont
USA
1948 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 11:29:40 AM
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I didn't set out to have vintage stuff in my kitchen, per se, but we are very short on storage/cabinets so my husband built a shelf in the kitchen and I started buying cute pyrex for baking/serving dishes--so they are a decoration, but also are used everyday. :)
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