Grandmas Apron
From pat2me 17 years ago
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- Serves 1e+07
My cousin, Suz, sent this and I just had to share....lots of us will have fond memories of Grandma's Apron Enjoy!!!
Ingredients
- Grandma's Apron - shopping list
- I don't think our kids know what an apron is. shopping list
- 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. shopping list
- It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears . shopping list
- When Grandma rocked us to sleep, she would cover us with her Apron, we felt so snug wrapped in it. shopping list
- 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. shopping list
- When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. shopping list
- And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms. shopping list
- Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. shopping list
- chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. shopping list
- From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls. shopping list
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- 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'.
- They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs was on that apron. I don't think I ever caught anything from a Apron.
- Ahh yes, I remember it well !!!
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Reviewed by 19 people-
I sew and, believe it or not, aprons are making a comeback - BUT usually only for a fashion statement. I remember my grandmother's apron - a huge thing that I could wrap myself in. Such sweet memories. Thank you.
scotbrit
in Lexington loved it
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Oh Pat, now you made me shed some tears before heading out to work this morning! The memories came flooding back of my grandmas and great grandma and their full aprons (and their little fancy 1/2 aprons for entertaining, of course!)...I'd forgotten ...more
krumkake
in Chicago Suburbs loved it
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I too am welling up! I can just see my gramma in her apron doing all of those things mentioned in the story. So heart-warming. What are our children and grandchildren going to remember?
auntybea
in Vernon loved it
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