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The History of APRONS
Remember making an apron in Home Economics in school? 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. The pockets were a handy place to carry odds and ends. 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 menfolks 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 today, trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron but I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron. |
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| If you think of other
uses for the apron that were used in your family, please let me send to
me via email and I will add to this webpage..... Jane Colmenares |
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| Absolutely terrific! At Martin High School, Miss Sarah Hardeman had us make aprons out of "domestic" and sew our names on the bib portion in small rick-rack. That was our first exercise in sewing... which we used for the cooking sessions in Home Ec, too. I still use aprons for serious cooking! And also for when I'm bleaching anything in the laundry room, otherwise I'll splash bleach on a good T-shirt or pair of jeans! Anne *****
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| Grammie and GrandDad always wore
an apron when home, as there was always something cooking on the stove.
Everyone always gathered in the kitchen, to talk and to
eat. Carol *****
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