On Thu 03 Nov 2005 12:32:56p, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> 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.
>
> IIRC she never had a big yellow one. The biggest I recall was the red
one.
> I can't tell you the weight of it but it let her mix up a bowl of biscuit
> batter for stew dumplings (does that help?) Then she had a smaller green
> one and then a yellow one (not sure what - if anything - she ever used
that
> one for).
>
> Jill
>
>

Sounds like the same ones, Jill. Lots of folks were missing one or another
of the set.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!