On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:22:22 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
> wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:32:29 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> rummaged among random neurons and opined:
>
>>In article >,
>> Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
>>
>>> And why did she also dampen the clothes off the clothes line that
>>> needed to be ironed, put them in a plastic bag and then in the
>>> refrigerator until she could get around to ironing them? It never
>>> occurred to me until I was an adult that this seemed a strange
>>> housekeeping practice.
>>
>>They went into the freezer to prevent mildew.
>
>Yahbut, if you kept 'em dry until you were ready to sprinkle them and
>iron them, wouldn't that leave clean clothes in the laundry room and
>room for food in the fridge??
>>>
>>> I also remember Mother's electric mangle for ironing linens.
>
>>We had one, too. But it wasn't in the kitchen,
>
>Nor was ours - the '50s ironing thing just reminded me of the mangle,
>which sat on top of a cabinet next to the washer. Big old thing, about
>3' wide with a half moon metal roller that heated and clamped onto a
>padded cylinder.

Shades of childhood!

My mom's mangle (an Ironrite) was built into a beautiful wooden
cabinet with brass fittings. It sat in the living room and looked side
an elegant sideboard. Mom used to iron after we kids had toddled of to
bed. I remember several times, awakening and wandering out to see what
mom was up to. I clearly recall the sounds and smell of the mangle.


>>OB Food: I'm making up a recipe to enter in the Ghirardelli Chocolate
>>contest at the Fair tomorrow. Can't be anything that's been published.
>>Drat! I've got a good brownie recipe. . . .
>
>So, we'll be seeing the recipe for this sometime soon, huh?
>
Good luck on the brownies.

My food reference can also go back to those early days, but these
memories are of watching mom make blintzes. She'd had the batter in a
bowl and three small frying pans going at once to make the Jewish
equivalent of crepes. She managed all three pans easily and swiftly as
the pile of blintze wrappers grew higher and higher on a warming
plate. Surely a sight to behold.

I'd talk about her making beet borscht, but it's early & I don't want
to upset Barb's tummy.

Boron