Lovely post, thx Jane. And yes to the big Mason Cash bowl. I’ve had mine for decades, and it’s perfect for my regular bake of 4 loaves of bread. If (when??) it gets broken I would absolutely have to replace it, nothing else available is the right size.
I love your selection of art work too. Good to see the domestic arts captured in conventional art forms 👌🏽💚🙏🏼
I cherish my Mason Cash bowl, after 53 years of marriage I am on my second one. Thankfully a local shop carries them! Thanks for coming back, I enjoy your writing and especially enjoy your tulip photos over the years. We can’t grown them due to a wandering herd of deer throughout our town!
What is there about the perfect bowl? I daily use my brilliant colored Pyrex nesting bowls even after a half century of homemaking. Bread still rises weekly in the large yellow bowl and popcorn is the perfect match for my petite sky blue one…. Many wee hands have helped mix cookies and cakes in those bowls and now my granddaughter is learning baking as well… how many seven years declare they want macrons and then makes them along with the buttercream filling? I hope she’ll use my bowls when I am gone. There’s magic in them….
absolutely adore the paintings in this post! i personally prefer a metal mixing bowl (weak wrists; need something lighter weight than ceramic) and recently obtained the most perfectly sized and shaped one at the thrift store for $1.99. the best part is that the outside has been enameled in a deep red, which matches both my Le Creuset dutch oven and my tea kettle! it brings me such joy when i use it. thank you for this ode to one of the most useful (and under-appreciated) kitchen items ever!
I look forward to your email each Sunday: the photos, the subject matter! I made hot cross buns for the first time on Good Friday using your recipe from Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer. Delicious. Thank you for your weekly essay.
What a lovely read! And the domestic interiors pictures are a joy. The Ravilious 'Kitchen Garden in October' was a discovery for me - by coincidence I just finished yesterday "Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship" by Andy Friend, about the group of artists around Ravilious. I particularly enjoyed it because it gave due weight to the women artists' achievements and their often domestic subject matter - Enid Marx, Tirzah Garwood, Peggy Angus and Helen Binyon.
I long to have something from the Manufacture de Digoin but they seem very hard to get here. My own treasured favourite bowl is a French coffee bowl with a pattern of cherries and red chequering, bought in November 1979 in Nancy, during my year in France as part of my degree. Just looking at that bowl immerses me once again in the fading days of autumn in eastern France.
And yes, why all these weird hot cross bun flavours?
Lovely post, thx Jane. And yes to the big Mason Cash bowl. I’ve had mine for decades, and it’s perfect for my regular bake of 4 loaves of bread. If (when??) it gets broken I would absolutely have to replace it, nothing else available is the right size.
I love your selection of art work too. Good to see the domestic arts captured in conventional art forms 👌🏽💚🙏🏼
I've been hankering after one of these for some time! Like others have said, I look forward to these posts so much Jane. Thank you.
Mrs Bridges - a blast from the past. 🍜 Happy Easter bun eating
I cherish my Mason Cash bowl, after 53 years of marriage I am on my second one. Thankfully a local shop carries them! Thanks for coming back, I enjoy your writing and especially enjoy your tulip photos over the years. We can’t grown them due to a wandering herd of deer throughout our town!
This makes me so happy—thank you. Big yellow Pyrex bowl for me. I’m making F Cloake’s cardamom buns this sunny morning.
What is there about the perfect bowl? I daily use my brilliant colored Pyrex nesting bowls even after a half century of homemaking. Bread still rises weekly in the large yellow bowl and popcorn is the perfect match for my petite sky blue one…. Many wee hands have helped mix cookies and cakes in those bowls and now my granddaughter is learning baking as well… how many seven years declare they want macrons and then makes them along with the buttercream filling? I hope she’ll use my bowls when I am gone. There’s magic in them….
absolutely adore the paintings in this post! i personally prefer a metal mixing bowl (weak wrists; need something lighter weight than ceramic) and recently obtained the most perfectly sized and shaped one at the thrift store for $1.99. the best part is that the outside has been enameled in a deep red, which matches both my Le Creuset dutch oven and my tea kettle! it brings me such joy when i use it. thank you for this ode to one of the most useful (and under-appreciated) kitchen items ever!
I look forward to your email each Sunday: the photos, the subject matter! I made hot cross buns for the first time on Good Friday using your recipe from Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer. Delicious. Thank you for your weekly essay.
I am still using my Mum's Mason Cash bowl.
What a lovely read! And the domestic interiors pictures are a joy. The Ravilious 'Kitchen Garden in October' was a discovery for me - by coincidence I just finished yesterday "Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship" by Andy Friend, about the group of artists around Ravilious. I particularly enjoyed it because it gave due weight to the women artists' achievements and their often domestic subject matter - Enid Marx, Tirzah Garwood, Peggy Angus and Helen Binyon.
I long to have something from the Manufacture de Digoin but they seem very hard to get here. My own treasured favourite bowl is a French coffee bowl with a pattern of cherries and red chequering, bought in November 1979 in Nancy, during my year in France as part of my degree. Just looking at that bowl immerses me once again in the fading days of autumn in eastern France.
And yes, why all these weird hot cross bun flavours?