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Hand Me Downs

April 15th 2009 10:34

My parents are moving house, and as part of my daughterly duties, I volunteered to help them pack a few things. Out of their cupboards came all sorts of treasures – set upon set of liqueur glasses, orange crockery dishes and kitchen gadgets which hadn't seen the light of day since the 1990s.

Not everything that came out of a cupboard went into a box to be unpacked at the new house. A lot of the more questionable items were packed off to the local charity shop, and, as ashamed as I am to admit it, some of them even came home with me.

I am now the proud owner of: a set of 'Papa's Hands' – a pastry crimping device designed to make easy work of pasties and other half moon shaped baked goods; a circa 1960s flour sieve, because my current one has issues with anything over ½ cup of flour; a cake carrier; a pudding bowl; some quiche dishes; and the most intriguing device of all, a biscuit piping 'gun' which has a variety of end discs which you can use to make biscuits of different shapes.

This one was quite a puzzle, but I think I have a mental image of how it works now. Basically, you have to make quite a smooth biscuit mixture which is easily forced through the machine and pattern disc. The pattern on the disc will not directly resemble the pattern which the dough makes once it comes through. The star shape will make biscuits in a sort of grooved 'tear-drop' shape (I think). I have no idea what shape the other discs will produce – I think it might be time for some experimenting!

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Comment by Jason King

April 15th 2009 10:48

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I love the second hand stuff. I scored a perfect condition enamel pot that is nearly a match for my crousset (I know I spelt that wrong) and my old boss was previously a chef and was throwing out his old pans - I scored big time on this - heavy duty frying pans that our now my pride and joy.
I also scored a second bread machine from a council cleanup and use it for making my chutneys and jams.
I keep searching Vinnies stores everywhere trying to find a good big ceramic grinding pepper grinder. I WILL WAIT as I cannot afford $100- plus for a decent one. Ooh - I may look at Ebay now

Good luck with the cookie cutting!

Comment by Helen Randell

April 15th 2009 10:55

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Thanks Jason - I find the old stuff is usually heaps better quality too.

Good luck with your ceramic grinder search. I'll keep you posted on the cookies!

Comment by SpikeTheLobster

April 15th 2009 11:24

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A 1960s flour sieve? Brilliant. Talk about better quality, that it's still usable and probably better than most produced today! I picked up an old mixer/blender at my mum's a while ago. It's a touch dodgy, but still in great working condition - and it's about twenty years old!!