I too, remember my grandfather in Iowa, pouring his coffee into the saucer to cool off. I learned how to make boiled coffee in the big coffee pot (wish I had one today) from my grandma, who also preferred her wood cookstove to her electric one. She very seldom used it. Couldn't put her iron on it, nor her little curling iron for her hair. Only the wood cook stove would do. Besides, it added heat to the old kitchen. Now, those women had to really know how to cook. The old recipes never had a time or a temperature on them. Just 'in a moderate oven until done". I have many stacks of saucers, that go with the cups with the modern handles. They hardly ever get used. Just take up space. Don't want to get rid of them however, because they go with the dishes. Men, in particular do not like those handles as their fingers are bigger and they get stuck in them, so mugs in a variety of colors and styles, are the thing, in my kitchen, for everyday, anyway. :0) That boiled coffee WAS HOT, and oh, so good!! Jerrian

I think the coffee being boiled on the wood stove was hotter than the elec. coffee pots now. I know camp fire coffe is hotter than here at home. No wonder they poured it in the saucers to cool.I know my dad used to make the coffee over the camp fire. Was so good. Maybe it is the smoke and a little dust or ashes blowing in it. I guess we are to modern now. going with son and wife to the coast with the trailer. I will be glad to be inside as it isn't supposed to be very good weather, so will be alot warmer than a tent or the old trailer. But should be fun. Don't think it will rain all the time. We have been there before when it rained and it kind of came and went. Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerrian" <jerrian@mchsi.com> To: <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 9:52 AM Subject: [ML] Cups and saucers >I too, remember my grandfather in Iowa, pouring his coffee into the saucer > to cool off. I learned how to make boiled coffee in the big coffee pot > (wish > I had one today) from my grandma, who also preferred her wood cookstove to > her electric one. She very seldom used it. Couldn't put her iron on it, > nor > her little curling iron for her hair. Only the wood cook stove would do. > Besides, it added heat to the old kitchen. Now, those women had to really > know how to cook. The old recipes never had a time or a temperature on > them. > Just 'in a moderate oven until done". > I have many stacks of saucers, that go with the cups with the modern > handles. They hardly ever get used. Just take up space. Don't want to get > rid of them however, because they go with the dishes. Men, in particular > do > not like those handles as their fingers are bigger and they get stuck in > them, so mugs in a variety of colors and styles, are the thing, in my > kitchen, for everyday, anyway. :0) That boiled coffee WAS HOT, and oh, so > good!! Jerrian > > > > > > 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

I remember that cooking a turkey was an all night thing-hours and hours! You would think those curling irons right into the flames would have burned their hair! My g.grandma boiled the coffee grounds with an egg shell and salt--the coffee was hot and delicious! She had a huge old stove that had a hot water heater attached to the back-never knew how that worked. Helen

Maybe it was like a boiler and the stove heated the water. Seems like I have seen something like that. When we used to go to the cabin with Ken's sister there was a wood cook stove. Well I had never cooked on one in my life. But she always wanted me to cook. Biscuits and pies. I kind of winged it and it did seem to work, but didn't have a clue of how to keep the oven at an even temp. But we ate any way. Those old ladys really knew how to do that. My dad always said his mother made really good pies. Of course she had cooked for a restaurant at the hotel they stayed in before moving to eastern Or. Would be nice and cozy in winter but hard with all that heat in the summer. I know she had to have canned evey thing also. Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: "helenware" <helenware@comcast.net> To: <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [ML] Cups and saucers >I remember that cooking a turkey was an all night thing-hours and hours! > You would think those curling irons right into the flames would have > burned > their hair! > My g.grandma boiled the coffee grounds with an egg shell and salt--the > coffee was hot and delicious! > She had a huge old stove that had a hot water heater attached to the > back-never knew how that worked. > Helen > > > > > > > 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

Helen, I remember as a child when living in Little Rock, AR, the house we rented had a big, farmhouse kitchen. The water heater was in a corner of the kitchen near the sink. The base of it was just above the countertop. The heater itself was a cast iron coil, three or four feet tall. The gas burner was at the bottom. You had to open a little door for access to light the burner. The flame and heat went up the middle of the coil. The water was inside the hollow coil which spiraled nearly all the way to the top. I know my mother would light the burner first thing in the morning to have hot water for bathing and such. I don't remember if there was a storage tank for the hot water but suspect there must have been somewhere. I don't remember ever seeing it. Perhaps your gmother'a was something like that. Robert E Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > From: helenware@comcast.net > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:44:00 -0500 > Subject: Re: [ML] Cups and saucers > > I remember that cooking a turkey was an all night thing-hours and hours! > You would think those curling irons right into the flames would have burned > their hair! > My g.grandma boiled the coffee grounds with an egg shell and salt--the > coffee was hot and delicious! > She had a huge old stove that had a hot water heater attached to the > back-never knew how that worked. > Helen > > > > > > > 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