"jmcquown" > wrote in message
.. .
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> > On Thu 03 Nov 2005 10:32:11a, Andy wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> >> Growing up, Pop would make Sunday pancakes in this specific bowl:
> >>
> >> http://tinypic.com/fasyet.jpg
> >>
> >> It predates me into the mid 50's.
> >>
> >> We'd watch him make the batter, standing there watching his every
> >> move, listening to his lecture about the finer points of pan prep,
> >> pancake bubbles, testing, flipping, etc.
> >>
> >> But it was that bowl that we waited for on Sundays. We'd loiter
> >> sleepy- eyed around the kitchen waiting for him to open the cabinet
> >> and bring it out. Then any shred of sleepiness vanished.
> >>
> >> Did everyone have a magic pancake batter bowl they worshipped as we
> >> did? I don't even remember if we were allowed to touch it.
> >>
> >> The ceremony and fanfare was so wonderful. Pop turning glop into
> >> gold!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > This was ours, originally purchased in the 1940s...
> >
> > http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=fattv5
>
> I don't have a photo... mom used an old (corningware?) red mixing bowl.
She
> had a nested set of three, the biggest was red, then green, then yellow.
I
> remember how upset she got when she dropped the red bowl on the floor and
it
> shattered. She'd had it for about 30 years.
>
> Jill
>
>

Jill, I'll bet you're talking about the Pyrex colored bowls. My mom had
those, too, and that's what I think of when I'm looking for a bowl to mix
in. Yellow was always for cookie dough and the blue was for scrambled eggs.
Always, no exception. :~)

They looked like this, but I know there was a red one. Maybe it's just the
pic......

http://www.rubylane.com/shops/marysp...0025?froogle=1

kili