Grandma's apron

[Shada]

The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a holder 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 ideal hiding places for shy kids; And when the weather turned chilly, grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow that was 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 men 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. Send this to those who would know and love the story about Grandma's aprons.

REMEMBER how Grandma use to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool? Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw."
Source:http://www.fathersforlife.org/feminism/Grandmas_Apron.htm

[teri88]

That was sweet. I never knew my grandparents but my mom wore an apron! And it served many of those same purposes!

[judy]

I loved that! My grandchildren use my shirt for a lot of those things. Maybe I should buy an apron.

[DianaB]

I can remember my great-grandma wearing an apron all the time but not my grandma. I knew several of my great-grandparents when I was little.

[Janet]

I never knew any of my grandparents either, they passed before or shortly after I was born. I do remember my mother wearing an apron many times.

[Gina]

I didn't know my grandparents either. But my mom use to wear aprons many, many years ago. Sweet thanks for posting that Shada..

[HALEY]

You just brought back sweet memories of my Grandmother she was always cooking, i still have a lot of her recipes that i use. But Grandma's cooking was always better than mine.. Still trying to figure out her "pitch of this" and a "dash of that" LOL....