What was your breakfast today?

[batchaps4me]

My mom makes pretty much all of mine.

I'm particular to pear and apple.

It's one of the few things I don't do myself.

The only times she entered any at the fair she got blue ribbons.

We are lucky because around here it is still a family event for a lot of people every fall and there is an abundance of homemade apple butter ... ranging from a hint of cinnamon to insane amounts. We haven't made any but my mother in law has the family copper kettle, stand and stir stick that her grandmother used. My brother in law has the silver dollar that went with it … they would drop it in the bottom, add apples and keep the dollar moving. We have my wife's great grandmother's butter churn and butter mold.

 

[RazzlDazzl]

We are lucky because around here it is still a family event for a lot of people every fall and there is an abundance of homemade apple butter ... ranging from a hint of cinnamon to insane amounts. We haven't made any but my mother in law has the family copper kettle, stand and stir stick that her grandmother used. My brother in law has the silver dollar that went with it … they would drop it in the bottom, add apples and keep the dollar moving. We have my wife's great grandmother's butter churn and butter mold.

I'm missing the barrel but recovered the handle from my grandmother's butter churn after Michael.

It's roughly 150 years old, likely a good bit older.

 

[batchaps4me]

I'm missing the barrel but recovered the handle from my grandmother's butter churn after Michael.
It's roughly 150 years old, likely a good bit older.

We know it was gifted for her when she got married and was setting up a house but aren't sure if it was bought/made new or an heirloom. That puts it at least over a 100 years old and I think we could look at its construction techniques to put a definite age to it but haven't had a big enough curiosity to do that because no matter what, we value it more than it can be priced. Now I am starting to get curious, dammitt!

 

[Copejunkie]

We know it was gifted for her when she got married and was setting up a house but aren't sure if it was bought/made new or an heirloom. That puts it at least over a 100 years old and I think we could look at its construction techniques to put a definite age to it but haven't had a big enough curiosity to do that because no matter what, we value it more than it can be priced. Now I am starting to get curious, dammitt!

I like antiques especially from my family, but my grandmother got rid of alot of them before I was born, she just wanted new. Her attitude was it's old we dont use it get rid of it. Grrr. My grandpa kept some things out in the shed though.

 

[batchaps4me]

I like antiques especially from my family, but my grandmother got rid of alot of them before I was born, she just wanted new. Her attitude was it's old we dont use it get rid of it. Grrr. My grandpa kept some things out in the shed though.

I love stuff like that as well. TBH one of the things I wanted to do in life was build a log home and have one large room reflect pre industrial times … no electrical outlets and filled with antiques. We have some things like I have mentioned plus a few items like a wood burning cooking stove with a bread warmer, pie safes and a china cabinet ... all of which have been in my wife's family for over a hundred years. But short of a Powerball win, that will not happen. We also have an old floor model RCA Victor radio that was her Grandpa's. Most of my family's heirlooms that Mom and Dad had were lost in our house fire back in the 80s. The good news is that it really wasn't much because my uncles and aunts had the bulk of them.

 

[Copejunkie]

I love stuff like that as well. TBH one of the things I wanted to do in life was build a log home and have one large room reflect pre industrial times … no electrical outlets and filled with antiques. We have some things like I have mentioned plus a few items like a wood burning cooking stove with a bread warmer, pie safes and a china cabinet ... all of which have been in my wife's family for over a hundred years. But short of a Powerball win, that will not happen. We also have an old floor model RCA Victor radio that was her Grandpa's. Most of my family's heirlooms that Mom and Dad had were lost in our house fire back in the 80s. The good news is that it really wasn't much because my uncles and aunts had the bulk of them.

The big thing that my grandmother kept was a cream separator. My grandpa kept some old tools, a 2 man crosscut saw, a big 1 man one and a scythe. Also some old harnesses and other odds and ends. Also a flare box wagon with an oats seeder and an old farmall H tractor that I have torn apart at the moment.

 

[batchaps4me]

The big thing that my grandmother kept was a cream separator. My grandpa kept some old tools, a 2 man crosscut saw, a big 1 man one and a scythe. Also some old harnesses and other odds and ends. Also a flare box wagon with an oats seeder and an old farmall H tractor that I have torn apart at the moment.

I cant even remember the last time I heard about a cream separator much less seen one. We do have some of Grandpa's old tools … mostly hammers and a really old Ford wrench.