Remember making an apron in home ec?
I don’t think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she had only a few. It was easier to wash aprons than dresses, and aprons required less material. But the apron also served as a pot-holder to remove hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children’s tears and, on occasion, 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 was cold, Grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow of cooks 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 and waved her apron, and the men folk 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.
Do you remember?
Grandma used to set freshly baked apple pies on the windowsill to cool. Her grandchildren set theirs on the windowsill to thaw.
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. I don’t think I ever caught anything from an apron but love…