May 26 2009
Grandma’s Apron
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- REMEMBER making an apron in Home Ec?
I don’t think our kids know what an apron is.
- The principal use of
- Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only
- had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder
- for removing hot pans from the oven.
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- It was wonderful for drying children’s tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
- From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
- When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
- And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
- Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
- Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
- From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.
- After the peas had been shelled, it carried out
- the hulls.
- In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
- When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of
- seconds.
- When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to
- dinner.
- It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ‘ old-time apron’ that served so many purposes.
- REMEMBER:
- Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool…
- Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
- They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs was on that apron.
