On Thu 03 Nov 2005 11:18:44a, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> 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

Were they like these?

http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=fau0kn

I have 3 sets like these, my mom's in the primary colors, mine in the 1960s
colors, and a set I bought at a flea market. They are my favorite mixing
bowls, apart from the SS bowl of my KA mixer.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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