Red, Green, Yellow Kitchen-wares At Salmon Brook Antiques in Granby, Connecticut

Vintage Kitsch n Stuff

Thought you might like to see some wonderful kitchen collectibles I spotted a few days ago at Salmon Brook Antiques in Granby, Connecticut.

Red & Green Vintage Kitchen-wares

I just love the combination of red and green...it so reminds me of visiting both of my grandmothers when I was growing up. Yellow and red kitchen-wares are another favorite combination for me.

Dutch Themed Kitchen Collectibles

And isn't the Dutch planter sweet as can be? What a lovely addition this planter would make in a Retro cottage kitchen.

In my book Hot Kitchen and Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s, you will find a section devoted to the history of Dutch style kitchen
collectibles as well as photos of planters, figurines, plates, textiles etc.

Red Ransburg Bread Box

The top photo shows a Ransburg bread box and single canister. While the canisters are easy to find....this style bread box is not that easy to find. The exterior is in very good shape, while the interior was a bit rough. But the piece is just great. RED always a very popular color and sells well.

You will enjoy Salmon Brook Antiques in Granby. CT It is a group shop will lots of charming antiques and collectibles and a lovely manager named Sharon.

C. Dianne Zweig is the author of Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s and Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes. She is also the Editor of Iantiqueonline.com an actively growing internet based resource community for people who buy, sell or collect antiques, collectibles and art. You can find Dianne’s fabulous retro and vintage kitchen, home and cottage collectibles at The Collinsville Antiques Company of New Hartford, CT, a 22,000 feet antique emporium with an in-house retro café.To read more articles by C. Dianne Zweig click on this link: C. Dianne Zweig’s Blog Kitsch ‘n Stuff Email me at dianne@cdiannezweig.comVisit my website, CDianneZweig.comDianne is a member of:The American Society of Journalists and AuthorsThe Authors Guild, Inc.

Buying Kitschy Housewares For Your Vintage Kitchen

Collecting Retro Housewares In Their Original Package

Vintage housewares in their original package are favorites among retro kitchen collectors. Kitschy and clean gadgets in their original wrappings are hard to come by. but a real treat when discovered.

Finding Gadgets In Their Original Package

Let's face it there is something about getting a houseware in mint condition that sure beats browsing through a bin of dusty, rusty , musty fellas. Wouldn't you love to have these 1950s
" Squeezit Mustard Dispenser s" ?

Kelley Street Vintage on Etsy.com seems to find the best examples of beautifully packaged housewares. You go gal!

Fun Graphics

Some collectors are after the graphics, others want a particular item such as an apple corer or a meat thermometer. And yet other buyers actually use their retro treasures and want the good ole stuff because they are much better made than the imports of today.

Cheap Thrills

And the nice thing about collecting vintage housewares form the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s is that you can pick up these items for $6.00-12.00 usually. Now that's a hobby you can live with!

Getting Started On Your Housewares Hobby

My favorite book on the topic is by Brian Alexander and called Spiffy Kitchen Collectibles.

And of course another terrific resource is my own book, "Hot Kitchen And Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s, coming out in a few weeks in an expanded SECOND EDITION

C. Dianne Zweig is the author of Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s and Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes. She is also the Editor of Iantiqueonline.com an actively growing internet based resource community for people who buy, sell or collect antiques, collectibles and art. You can find Dianne’s fabulous retro and vintage kitchen, home and cottage collectibles at The Collinsville Antiques Company of New Hartford, CT, a 22,000 feet antique emporium with an in-house retro café.To read more articles by C. Dianne Zweig click on this link: C. Dianne Zweig’s Blog Kitsch ‘n Stuff Email me at dianne@cdiannezweig.comVisit my website, CDianneZweig.comDianne is a member of:The American Society of Journalists and AuthorsThe Authors Guild, Inc.

Preparing Your Kitchen: Wedding Advice From Hip Vintage Mom's

How To Become The Perfect Housewife: Ideas For Brides From Hip Vintage Mom's
Attention brides to be...if you really want to become the perfect housewife...you can learn a lot from gals of the 1950s on how to set up your future kitchen. There were very few clueless homemakers back then because brides- to- be were prepared by their moms, grandmother's, popular home magazines, classes in school and lots of advice books on how to prepare their kitchens for Prince Charming. .

New Brides Love Kitchen Gifts

During the Atomic Era, housewife- to- be often bought her housewares from the local Dimestore or ordered her kitchenwares from catalogs from Montgomery Ward or Sears. Many new brides might also select special gifts from Stamp Redemption Centers such as S & H or others. Oh the good ole days, when you could bring home a lovely cake saver which matched your canisters and serving trays.

It's not too late to help the new bride in the kitchen.

Preparing Your Kitchen: Hints For The Retro Bride - What You Will Need
Kitchen-wares

1 rolling pin
1 egg beater
1 food chopper
1 grater or set of graters
1 small reamer for lemon juice
2 strainers
2 flour sifters
1 tea kettle
6 knives (chef, butcher, carving, utility, pairing. slicer).

Baking

1 0r 2 cookie sheets
1 0r 2 pie tins
1 loaf pan
2 cake pans (8 or 9 inch)
1 set of mixing bowls
2 sets of measuring cups (dry and wet)



Cookware

1 large roasting pan (with rack)
1 or 2 casseroles
1 pressure sauce pan
2 frying pans 10 inch and 7 inch
2 saucepans
1 double boiler
1 dutch oven or large covered pan

Reference Information: Courtesy of Good Housekeeping's Complete Wedding Guide, Edited by Elizabeth Stewart Weston, Bridal Editor of Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1957.

Photos Courtesy of

http://www.etsy.com/shop/vintagegoodies

http://jazzejunque.com/

C. Dianne Zweig is the author of Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s and Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes. She is also the Editor of Iantiqueonline.com an actively growing internet based resource community for people who buy, sell or collect antiques, collectibles and art. You can find Dianne’s fabulous retro and vintage kitchen, home and cottage collectibles at The Collinsville Antiques Company of New Hartford, CT, a 22,000 feet antique emporium with an in-house retro café.To read more articles by C. Dianne Zweig click on this link: C. Dianne Zweig’s Blog Kitsch ‘n Stuff Email me at dianne@cdiannezweig.comVisit my website, CDianneZweig.comDianne is a member of:The American Society of Journalists and AuthorsThe Authors Guild, Inc.

Even Martha Stewart Would Like My Homemade Vintage Chicken Soup

Home Made Retro Chicken Soup Vintage Style

While the current Martha Stewart's Living magazine is featuring an article about how to prepare some of the best recipes for Chicken Soup, I had discovered how to make the best "Vintage Chicken Soup" ! My soup was made in a 1950's yellow enamelware pot and stuffed with a hand made stuffed chicken.

This Chick Has Cute Dangling Legs

I am big on props so a few weeks ago I picked up this cute hand sewn chicken and figured I would sit this "chick" on a shelf somewhere...with it's cute legs dangling off the shelf. But my shop (actually a small booth) at The Collinsvillle Antiques Company of New Hartford, CT is so packed with junk (I mean kitchen collectibles) that I literally had no room to stick this stuffed chicken anywhere, no less have room enough to have this Calico dressed bird take up valuable shelf space.

The Soup Is Ready

So in a totally frustrated mood, one afternoon, I plopped the chicken in an empty sauce pot, temporarily while I began moving around some other items to make room for the dangling chicken. Lo and behold, I got distracted and forgot all about the fact that I placed the chicken in the pot. Well today I returned to my shop (after the holiday break) and there awaiting me was a lovely pot of "Vintage Soup for The Soul".


C. Dianne Zweig is the author of Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s and Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes. She is also the Editor of Iantiqueonline.com an actively growing internet based resource community for people who buy, sell or collect antiques, collectibles and art. You can find Dianne’s fabulous retro and vintage kitchen, home and cottage collectibles at The Collinsville Antiques Company of New Hartford, CT, a 22,000 feet antique emporium with an in-house retro café.

To read more articles by C. Dianne Zweig click on this link:
C. Dianne Zweig’s Blog Kitsch ‘n Stuff

Email me at dianne@cdiannezweig.com

Visit my website, CDianneZweig.com

Dianne is a member of:
The American Society of Journalists and Authors
The Authors Guild, Inc.

How To Be a Frugal Housewife: Cooking and Baking Tips For Retro Living

Learning From Frugal Housewives Part I

I thought it might be fun to share with my Retro readers some handy dandy 1947 "Household Hints'

Saving Money in The Kitchen

1. Get More juice out of lemons : Quickly heat the lemons in hot water for several minutes before squeezing, Or roll to soften.

2. Don't waste flour, you won't waste flour if you dust it from a large salt shaker onto meats, fish, or patties instead of dipping hte food into the flour. It's easier too.

3. Save your orange and lemon rinds: a clever woman also saves some of her orange and lemon rinds, boils them in water for a short time and uses the liquid in iced tea, lemonade, fruit drinks. Costs nothing and helps make a fine thirst quencher.

4. Leftover coffee need not be poured down the drain. Freeze it into coffee ice-cubes for your iced coffee or other iced drinks. The same goes for your tea.

5. Eliminate molasses waste when measuring molasses by greasing the cups lightly.

6. Use cereal to stretch meat. Add crushed cereal flakes to a meat loaf. Or toss cereal flakes with melted margarine and grated cheese for a caserole toppping.

7. Save the water in which you boil rice. It's good to use to make gravy. It thickens itself!

8. To make fruit go farther, add cubes of bright-flavored gelatin dessert (lime, strawberry, etc). Pretty to serve in sherbets.

9. If only a little lemon juice is needed, make a cut in the end of hte lemon and squeeze out exactly the amount desired. The rest will keep better.

10. Place a piece of apple in your brown sugar and it will keep the sugar from drying out and lumping. Try the same cure for too-dry cookies.

Source "1003 Household Hints", 1947 Edited by Michael Gore


C. Dianne Zweig is the author of Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s and Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes. She is also the Editor of Iantiqueonline.com an actively growing internet based resource community for people who buy, sell or collect antiques, collectibles and art. You can find Dianne’s fabulous retro and vintage kitchen, home and cottage collectibles at The Collinsville Antiques Company of New Hartford, CT, a 22,000 feet antique emporium with an in-house retro café.

To read more articles by C. Dianne Zweig click on this link:
C. Dianne Zweig’s Blog Kitsch ‘n Stuff

Email me at dianne@cdiannezweig.com

Visit my website, CDianneZweig.com

Dianne is a member of:
The American Society of Journalists and Authors
The Authors Guild, Inc.