Tools that make life for the Cosie Easier

[Ozark Tracker]

I'm gonna hafta start looking for one of them potatoe squishers,  I like them potato cakes pretty good.

They have a state sponsored garage sale here in Arkansas, along hiway 64,  138 miles from LIttle Rock to Almost Ft. Smith, more sales than you can count.    we usually look at about 30 or 40 miles of the sale,  I'll have to keep my eyes open this year.

[Delmonico]

Annie Lee found them new somewhere last fall, don't know where right now.

[Camille Eonich]

I have a sifter and a cuisanart.    I peel tater with a knife not a "tater peeler" and chop onions in my hand not on a chopping block.  Makes Stumpy squirm.   

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[Stump Water]

Froe is the word.

Yep.  'At's it. 

[Delmonico]

Just cause I 'membered it today, don't expect it tommorow.

[Ozark Tracker]

I do good sometimes to remember what day it is,  I can tell you exactly how old the birds are by week and day but not the date,  we don't celebrate weekends so it just all runs together

[Delmonico]

When the railroads came to the West they offered cheap transportation and much faster transportation.  There were lots of citrus groves in both Florida and California.  Lemons were in great demand and were shipped in in season and were preserved in heavy brine.  This kept them from spoiling and the salt did not penatrate the thick waxy rind.

Lemon desserts were popular along with lemonade for special days like the Fourth of July.  There were many kinds of Lemon Squeezers, this one don't look like a S&W, but it gets taken when a lemon dessert is on the menu.

[Delmonico]

Every cook camp needs a coffee pot, I have three, the first one is a 8 cup, it don't get used a lot, but sometimes in cold weather someone wants some de-caf.

The next one is a 20 cup one.

[Delmonico]

I also have a 32 cup one.  I like the white because it is also white on the inside and it makes the inside clean up a lot easier to see in dim light at 5 am or so, from the pot left to warm over night.  A clean pot makes much better coffee.

And my coffee griner that can bolt or screww to a wall or chuckwagon or has a clamp for the table.

[Delmonico]

Of course I have my little copper tea kettle for Turkish Coffee and a larger one for tea and hot chocolate.

[deucedaddyj]

You could get a lot of those hard to find tools in the old Cumberland General Store catalog. They use to have a website, but they shut it down to update it, and it never came back.

I think you can still order the catalog. Try google.

It was like looking through an old Sears catalog, but you could actually order all the stuff in it. They had lots of cookware, medicines, hats, instuments, and all kinds of stuff from the late 1800's.

[Delmonico]

In reality I have everything I need, still have many things I want.  There is an Amish Company that has a lot also.  I just enjoy the hunt.

I keep my coffee beans in a lightning jar, I cheat for the tea-totalers and give them the very late 19th century tea-bags I keep in a tin can with a lid.  (Nobody has ever complained about the tea bags and opened to put the loose tea in their cup.)

And this is where I keep the coaco for hot chocklate and chocolate cakes.  (I also often have the instant hot chocolate, but I won't drink it.)   If you don't read the modern stuff on the back this can is great, also Hershey didn't start producing cocoa till the late 90's.  But it's to neat a can not to use.  I set it in plain site to see if anyone besides me and my pard know.   Nobody yet.

[El Peludo]

 

Del, I swear, you could have almost been diggin' 'round in our stuff.  Nice to know we're not the only folks who 'preciate old stuff.

(whisper) --- But, we do have a Cuisinart, and a big Kitchenaid.   

[deucedaddyj]

(whisper) --- But, we do have a Cuisinart, and a big Kitchenaid.   

YOU HAVE WHAT!?!?!

[Delmonico]

An old time food prosscesser prouserr pruceser a thing that slices and dices.

[Delmonico]

Most will remember a grater like this first one,  I have 3 of them.  would like to fine one of the 4 sided ones.

The second grater is for nutmeg, hard cheese and other smaller items that need ground fine, it would also work for fresh horseradish.

[Delmonico]

When baking it often says to cut in the lard or butter.  Well here's the tool, I have a couple of these.


This enemalware seive/colender is a peice you don't see often.

[Ozark Tracker]

All interesting tools, I can remember Grandma having em all,  seems like the cheese grater she had, could be took apart and a different size of grater (the handle and grater) put in,  it seems like she had more than one size for it.

did the seive/colender come in different size seives? course to fine?

[Delmonico]

Now that you mentioned it I have seen the graters with blades that interchange.

As for the colinder/seive, I don't know, it's the only one I ever seen, it was in a box of junk a friend bought at a sale.  He got what he wanted and gave me the items he thought I might like. 

[Delmonico]

One of my wood-handle, nickel plated serving ladles.

And a slotted serving spoon.