mom had some of them type knives and the handles would ignite if it touched the gas cooker flame giving off horrible campher smell. PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME IT'S DANGEROUSSome specific knives are rarely seen on the dining table. Butter knives for example. I don’t think many people use them as much. A was surprised to learn that the first one was a butter knife, Birmingham marked silver one of 1899. My butter knife which I only recently acquired is shaped more like the second one without the decoration. It really is the best way to spread butter on toast if your regular knives are narrow like mine. Viv.
View attachment 169876
View attachment 169877
We use a similar thing to deal with wasps. Probably made in a Far Eastern suburb of Birmingham, (begins with C, ends in A). A wide glass bottle with a narrow neck. A few ml of beer inside and the wasps die happy. We can even get wasp pheromone to add, to make it super attractive.What Birmingham products have gone/went out of fashion ? I actually like this one as it looks quite scientific. I bet kids of the 1880s loved to study it ! Was probably more humane (and alcoholic) than it’s replacement, the fly paper. Viv.
View attachment 154358
I remember those knives, all you had left was a piece of wire rod connected to the blade!mom had some of them type knives and the handles would ignite if it touched the gas cooker flame giving off horrible campher smell. PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME IT'S DANGEROUS
Yes, fish knives. We had them and never used for fish and were not very good a for much else, I thought!On thinking about it, they may have been old fish knives as they were quite similar.
View attachment 169878
Toast must have Butter.Some specific knives are rarely seen on the dining table. Butter knives for example. I don’t think many people use them as much. A was surprised to learn that the first one was a butter knife, Birmingham marked silver one of 1899. My butter knife which I only recently acquired is shaped more like the second one without the decoration. It really is the best way to spread butter on toast if your regular knives are narrow like mine. Viv.
View attachment 169876
View attachment 169877
Always!Toast must have Butter.
Did anyone ever have Dripping on toast. My grandmother used to say eat this it will stop you getting colds along with my tea with a shot of whisky in before I went to school.Our toasting fork was a common brass one with, I think, a decorative ship on top and only 3 prongs. And of course toasters were a rare thing at one time and were unreliable. I had a great aunt who lived in Lozells who died in a house fire because of a faulty toaster. I think this must have been around the 1950s. The sad thing is, my dad was travelling on the bus and saw the fire at the house and knew it was his aunts house because her enormous sewing machine was in the window. Fortunately the safety measures now on electrical goods are better than back then.
Viv.
Buttered whilst still hot so the butter sinks in followed by a light covering of strawberry jam.Toast must have Butter.