Back before Fridgidairs we used to have a warming closet atop our old black stove and that's where Mama kept most of our leftovers...with 9 kids it didn't pay to get careless.....You never heard of anything spoiling in the uncooled houses...maybe because the vegetables were freshly picked and prepared....and meat was a luxury prepared for one meal.......Ma used the table cloth on her big round table to cover HER leftovers...what she didn't keep in the pie safe with it's punched tin door panels....Wish I had that old cabinet.....I collect the punched tin designs made onto poster board...There are LOTS of different ones...Jeannie T.. ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210

This brought back the memory of when I was 8 years old we had the ice man visit our house three times a week and he would carry a big block of ice and put it in the ice box and every once in a while I will still say puit the milk back in the ice box.  It did keep the food cool and nothing spoiled.  Annette. --- On Sat, 4/9/11, askgranny@juno.com <askgranny@juno.com> wrote: From: askgranny@juno.com <askgranny@juno.com> Subject: [ML] Reminiscing..... To: MEMORY-LANE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011, 1:07 AM Back before Fridgidairs we used to have a warming closet atop our old black stove and that's where Mama kept most of our leftovers...with 9 kids it didn't pay to get careless.....You never heard of anything spoiling in the uncooled houses...maybe because the vegetables were freshly picked and prepared....and meat was a luxury prepared for one meal.......Ma used the table cloth on her big round table to cover HER leftovers...what she didn't keep in the  pie safe with it's punched tin door panels....Wish I had that old cabinet.....I collect the punched tin designs made onto poster board...There are LOTS of different ones...Jeannie T.. ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Oh how well i remember the ice man who came three times a week. I was 11 or 12 with new feelings in my body and always watching and listening. That was how i found out the ice man was sneaking around with our 15 yr old neighbor girl and i knew it was sneaking because my mom knew his wife but i never told. But we got all his small ice chips and just maybe that was why i kept my mouth shut because he was so good to us kids. But at 80, 90 and 100 degrees it tasted good. Viola.