Which items from the past do you still use?

[aspin]

Brilliant JC.  :)Who knew Rootschat would be so great for so many different things.

Kath

Kath
This is why I posted the photo of the cake tin JC the water sounds a good idea
I was going to make a sandwich mixture
I thought of making the mixture 8ozs of each
When I make my chocolate and sandwich cake I use 600s of each if you read me
I used to make the grandchildren the snow man but I gave the tin away now I have a much bigger tin of Santa
If I have time I will have a bash see how it comes out he maybe land up with his head off or something
Elizabeth
Elizabeth

[aspin]

Milly I think your coat will be a good one by the sounds of it can we see it
Talking of things lasting ,my husband and I started going out together on 5 .12 .1956 
 it was near xmas so he bought me a card and present

This is the first and may I say last xmas card I have had from him
It has 3d on the back and it comes out every year
Hubby always Say's he buys quality it last longer
The family think it funny even the grandchildren

Elizabeth

[Lydart]

That's a family heirloom ... tresure it, and keep it in the acid free !

[Rabbit B]

Milly I think your coat will be a good one by the sounds of it can we see it
Talking of things lasting ,my husband and I started going out together on 5 .12 .1956 
 it was near xmas so he bought me a card and present

This is the first and may I say last xmas card I have had from him
It has 3d on the back and it comes out every year
Hubby always Say's he buys quality it last longer
The family think it funny even the grandchildren

Elizabeth

What a beautiful card Elizabeth,

They knew how to make them in those days.  MY OH was doing his National Service in 1956, he sent me some lovely ones from Cyprus, but I didn't keep mine sadly the dog tore them all up!  He kept his though, and they are still as lovely as the day I bought them.

My stock saying is that you only get what you pay for!  That card proves it. 3d was worth a lot more in those days.

Rabbit B  

[millymcb]

Milly I think your coat will be a good one by the sounds of it can we see it
 

Here it is at a WW2 railway weekend.... The dress underneath you can barely see is also original late 30s - and that's one of the comfiest dresses I have too.   


Milly

[aspin]

Nice photo Milly I have a basket lie that hanging in the garage
I had it for my cookery at school then my husband used it for taking the food stores to his boat 

Elizabeth

[Rabbit B]

Lovely picture Milly,


Love the outfit, could have been made yesterday.  it is such a classic style.   

Hate to say it but my basket is the same as well, why does it seem heavy these days I wonder?  When it's empty too!   

Rabbit B   

[Cog]

I still use my moms old chip pan !  It is 50 years old and she brought it over to England from Ireland, when Thursday came and the money was running short, being paid on a Friday, we would have our pals round and she would make us chips wrapped up in in wax paper, loaded with loads of salt and vinegar, not like the horrible orange things that you buy in chippers these days that taste like the smell of of "kebabs" !  These chips were cooked in beef dripping and were delicious.  Every now and them I have a yearning for me mammys chips and get out her old pan, bu they never taste the same somehow, needless to say It dont happen very often, nobody can make chips like me mammy !

Carol

[PaulaToo]

You can't beat Mum's cooking, Carol.
My mum used to make the most delicious apple dumplings...Oh to sit down to one again. It was her recipe and she wouldn't share it...wish she had.