This is Matilda's hoosier cabinet, some readers wanted to know what a hoosier cabinet looked like. That one is cool, it has the enameled metal top and the flour sifter still attached. You couldn't make a light cake back then without sifting your flour! I had one of these, painted white that I had to give away when I moved. It was really handy. In antique stores they're pricey, but, around here a lot of them have been sent to the garage to be used as tool cabinets and you can still find them. I like seeing what people collect, this is a nice example of this kind of cabinet and the room looks homey and sweet. It just makes you want to sit down with a cup of coffee, doesn't it? What's that green pendant like thing hanging on the flour sack, Matilda?
Sunday, August 30, 2009
hoosier cabinet
This is Matilda's hoosier cabinet, some readers wanted to know what a hoosier cabinet looked like. That one is cool, it has the enameled metal top and the flour sifter still attached. You couldn't make a light cake back then without sifting your flour! I had one of these, painted white that I had to give away when I moved. It was really handy. In antique stores they're pricey, but, around here a lot of them have been sent to the garage to be used as tool cabinets and you can still find them. I like seeing what people collect, this is a nice example of this kind of cabinet and the room looks homey and sweet. It just makes you want to sit down with a cup of coffee, doesn't it? What's that green pendant like thing hanging on the flour sack, Matilda?
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I LOVE it!! Of course, now I will have to start harassing local antique shops till I find one...;). Seriously, that's beautiful!! Are they generally hard to find? Thanks for posting, DD!
10G (Gina)
I think the thingy is a ladle. Maybe a slotted ladle.
I never knew that's what those were called. I love your kitchen Matilda! Homey, comfortable, inviting. Everything a kitchen should be.
Is that thingy a masher--maybe potato?
Thanks Matilda and Pat! Yeah, I still want one. Sometimes Pat, I wish you'd tell us your town because it's a few decades behind the times and I LOVE that. I get really sick of Ikea/electronics/condo-congested life.
My Mom had a hoosier cabinet. It was the center of the kitchen, and so pretty. I remember, too, that we had a brown metal top table with a drawer--it was in the middle of the kitchen. It had a drawer.
It was used for baking and for supper, as well. The chairs were odd and mismatched. It was charming.
I love those cabinets. I've been wanting one for ages and never knew they had an name either.
I guess I collect cookbooks, forgot to include that in your other post, they've been in storage so long I forgot I had them.
I have this really cool cookbook called "Prairie Kitchen Sampler" by E. Mae Fritz. She's from Nebraska and it's a sort of history/cookbook of American Midwestern farm families and recipes. She covers 66 years of her life starting when her first kitchen had no electricity and they used a huge corn-cob burning stove for heating and cooking. She describes the most lovely kitchen furniture like the one in the photo. I think that's where I started wanting one. It's an interesting chronicle of farm life and I enjoyed reading it just as a book. The recipes are a huge bonus.
That green handled thing hanging on the flour sack is indeed a potato masher. I have such an overflow of antique utensils and old jars and what-not that I've started placing them above my kitchen cabinets. Nice to look at but sure is a pain to dust.
It just dawned on me. My Mother used to call hers a pie safe. I think they are one and the same.
Thats cool! I live in Indiana, so I know my cabinets! I have an old Sellers cabinet. They are all the same style. People didnt have built in cabinets back then. They rolled their pie dough out on the enamel table part, their noodles, bread. They were in constant use. Most people had several & used them all. They have flour bins in them behind the left door usually. It was a funnel type of flour dispenser, you could place your bowl under it & it would dispense it. How they kept the weevols out is beyond me. I have to keep my flour in the frigerator to keep them out. They probably just baked them in and ate them. My aunt that just died had many of theses, she had so many kids that I didnt get one. Even tho she had told me I could have one. Its ok. I guess she didnt tell anybody else. They are the backdrop for many a country, primitive style kitchen. They are big. This is a lovely one here.
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Anon 11:40.... Yeah, I love my Hoosier. Mom had one when we were kids but she sold it to a friend and I always regretted that. Mom didn't care for old stuff like I did and after I grew up and had a home of my own I swore I'd get me a Hoosier. They can be quite costly depending on what they are made out of. I had been searching for years but couldn't find one in decent shape for under 5 or 6 hundred dollars. Although this one isn't what you'd call high grade lumber I loved the fact that it did have the original flour sifter (some of the ones I had come across were missing the sifter) and also had the original metal lined drawers. It fits right in with my country style theme.
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