What do you know about the use of an apron?

January 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I don’t think our kids know what an apron is or at least what it was used for. The principal use of an apron was to protect the dress underneath. Yes the dress.  When women stated wearing pants and jeans, aprons kind of drifted away.

Several ways to use an apron are:

  • As a cover-up, the apron was easier to wash than dresses, took less material,
  • But along the way, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven
  • 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 an ideal hiding place for shy kids

These are a few of the things an apron can be used for. Check back again for even more uses.  Maybe we should all get an apron and save the jeans.

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I don’t think I ever caught anything from an apron

December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

 

Grandma's apronGrandma 
used to set her hot apple pies on the window sill to cool. 

Her Granddaughters
set theirs on the window sill to Thaw.

Her Great Granddaughters 
would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.

I don’t think I ever caught anything from an apron,except maybe a little Love and caring.

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Gandma’s Apron brings back so many memories

October 25, 2009 By 8 Comments
  • When the weather was cold, Grandma wrapped her apron around her arms.
  • Grandma’s big apron wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot stove.
  • Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in Grandma’s  apron.
  • From the garden, Grandma carried all sorts of vegetables
  • After the peas had been shelled, Grandma’s  apron carried out the hulls.
  • In the fall, Grandma’s 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 Grandma’s old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
  • When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, she waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
  • But most of all, any apron I see reminds me of Grandma, the wonderful kitchen smells, the hugs and her love.

 It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ‘old-time apron’ that served so many purposes.

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