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Metal, ca 1950(?). Kept her recipes on index cards just fitting in perfectly. When my Mother died in 1986, I found a lot of hand-me-downs from use in my childhood by her. They have provided useful functionality for 50+ years! Real eggs, decorated by hand by my Czech. Grandma. Each took hours...

?? You gotta get up off of it to fetch the wine, no? Just go fetch more often, and a bit less each "fetching"!

Except "dominose".

Looks like a thing they used when I was in high school to make paper copies!

WTH is it?

I don't recall my mother ever getting goose eggs, but roast goose was a "must" several times a year! On holidays mainly. Delicious! Duck tasted even better! After I left home, such dining was rare, my first wife, being Polish, specialized in pierogi and Golompki. My second and present wife (40...

In our house, all three shelves would likely have an oven! We currently have two in the kitchen, one relatively small GE which came with the house, and our wonderful big Sharp Micro-convection. Reposing in a spare bedroom is a third, awaiting my installation of a new power capacitor; no hurry.

Here in rural Arizona, we have no requirement for repeated inspection of any kind, only repeated annual tax to obtain registration. Liability insurance IS required. In the very populous areas, Phoenix and Tucson, the State of Arizona was successfully sued by the indigent unable to buy insurance...

[Mod.Edit - please note this post has been copied to start a new thread. Please post replies in the new thread: Fortified Wines] Can I deviate a bit from whisky? Many years ago, living in my birthplace outside of Chicago, I became acquainted by accident with a most-delicious wine imported from...

Many years ago, living in my birthplace outside of Chicago, I became acquainted by accident with a most-delicious wine imported from Sicily. It's name was "Sicilian Gold". There was also a competitor, imported from Italy, I think, named "Gold Drops Mandorcreama". After moving out West, I was...

@Mewmew I shall ask my wife more about "box cake" mixes vs "hand strewn" cake as rendered in the microwave. As I recall, teaching microwave cooking class, she used box mixes exclusively to save time. Before she was hired to sell microwave ovens, she had no knowledge of actually cooking wit...

I design and build things of mechanical and/or electrical nature. When we bought our house 5 years ago, it was "powered" by propane gas, stored out back in a giant tank. I've always disliked propane, so set out to eliminate it. We did the water heater first, buying a brand new electric one, then...

My wife's "off-brand" is an "Insignia" brand, $29.99, free shipping from Best Buy, and we are very pleased with it. She uses it to sautee, as she calls it, uses very little water initially, though I'm always worried about burning, and that hasn't happened yet. It takes about 10 minutes to get up...

Always greatly troubled me, especially after a fish bone lodged beneath my gum, and I wound up with a horrible abscess and the most terrifying experience of my life, at age 19. The experience can be told later. Here, I seek to find an answer as to why I have as long as I can remember, even as a...

@Shermie They look wonderful! This afternoon my wife cooked up 5 lbs. of pork shoulder cut into 3" pieces, tender as could be! Couldn't resist the special price: 7 roasts in the pkg., regular price $40, bought for $13!