sf wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:17:42 -0500, "Felice" >
> wrote:
>
>>One of my kitchen standbys is a child's wooden building block, about a
>>foot long, that I use for pounding cutlets. I "requisitioned" it one
>>day when the children were tads and we were poor. The children are now
>>pushing 50 and I've flattened a lot of cutlets in the intervening
>>years.
>
> I used a plumbers mallet for that until my son grew up and stole it
> from me to use on some handyman type job here at the house.

I can remember my grandmother (who lived with us; we had a
three-generation home) and my mother using a tin can to chop
strawberries in a bowl. Both ends had been removed and one end still
had the rounded "bead" on the edge; the other end - the cutting end -
did not, so that it was sharp. This was a saved tool; it wasn't like
whenever they needed to chop something they used a new can; it was kept
a the drawer with other tools. I'm sure they used it for chopping other
stuff; it's just strawberries that I specifically remember. The nature
of product would've determined what was used for chopping; I can't
imagine using that can for something like onions that would've required
a real cutting edge. Cultural Timeline: They experienced the Great
Depression; my memories of this tool are from the 1950s and 1960s.


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