So finally got back into the doll studio today to get a little more done. Paul has sorted out the missing hinge to the larder cupboard door and added a couple of shelves to the tall upper cupboard.
Back in the kitchen and now filled with goodies.
Plenty of storage for those larder staples.
Now the older readers of this blog will hopefully know just what this is and may have even seen their mothers using one in her kitchen.
Yes, it's a mincer. My mother had one , into which she would feed beef, turning the handle so it came out as mince.
Here it is fitted to the larder cupboard side ready for use.
Also in the kitchen
a few more treasures.
The great little wall holder for kitchen utensils, I found on the Ruby Lane website , the rolling pin I already had. The prefect addition to the working kitchen.
On the table is a lovely set of scales , kindly given to me by my lovely friend Jenni in Wales. It did have four weights but alas the smallest two have gone missing, but may hopefully turn back up over time.
On the left is a miniature Peek Frean's biscuit tin. I just had to have this, my Nan used to work for the Peak Frean's biscuit factory when I was a child and on the odd occasion, my dad would take us to meet her from work, she worked late in the evenings. The workers were about to buy paper bags full of broken biscuits for just a few pennies. The factory also made chocolate biscuits for the Queen, which my Nan would also buy a small bag of those broken ones. They were wonderful, similar to club biscuits but twice the size and twice the depth, a big chunk of chocolate at each end !
Another tin I have.
The now painted dresser is back in place with the China back on the shelves and the cupboard full.
I bought this range stove off German Ebay a good few years back. It came with a good few brass/ copper pots.
Alas the kettle was minus it's lid, so at some stage I should really try and find/make a replacement.
I am LOVING this! The miniature kitchen utensils are perfection! What a wonderful piece of history ---trouble is I remember seeing some of those as every day items when I was young #feelingold
ReplyDeleteI just so love small replica's of everyday items, even when I wasn't a doll collector and now with the dolls it's given me the excuse to start finding and adding them in. Don't feel old , feel happy to have actually seen them in use , history lol
Deletelove the peak freans biscuit tin , my nan worked there too so she allways bought bags of broken biscuits to ours every saturday but if they had pink wafers in all the biscuits were covered in pink dust !!! i was quite disappointed to learn when i got older that she worked in the office and didnt make the biscuits !!! she worked there with danny bakers mum :) im annoyed with myself as last year at the carboot there was a box containing a 1950s ? tin plate kitchen much like yours , various cupboards and a range with lots of accesories and big tin pots , i loved it but didnt buy as i was being good and had no use for it , only £2 ...i should of got it and sent it to you !!! xxxx
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful your Nan also worked at Peek Freans! What a small world. Don't you find all the good stuff turns up when you are trying to be good. Sounds like a marvellous kitchen you didn't buy. I'd have given you the money plus postage , although Paul may well have said 'what more stuff ! " lol
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