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Default Pastry Brush?


"A.Nonny.Mouse" > wrote in message
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>I think I have searched EVERYWHERE.
>
> What I am looking for is the old type, like my Mom and both grandmothers
> used.
>
> It had a thick twisted wire handle, with a loop large enough for my thumb
> to go through on the end opposite the bristle end. The bristle end is the
> important part. The bristles were stiff enough to get into corners of
> pans and into the smaller indentations of ornate mold type pans. It
> wasn't so stiff that it would ruin the tops of pastry when it was used for
> it's originally intended purpose.
>
> It was NOT one of those limber, practically useless silicone rubber things
> that every place in the world sells today. It was NOT a small, softer
> bristled brush resembling a natural bristle paint brush that you might use
> for painting the rungs on the back of your chairs.
>
> If anyone has a link to such a thing, I would really appreciate it. I
> really don't want to go through Christmas baking like I did on
> Thanksgiving and in previous years.
>
> Like I said, I think I have searched everywhere, this is hoping that I
> might have missed a place or two.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> A.


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