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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Farm Girls Sunbonnet Sue & Hannah with the Doll Stroller .... Vintager Things Thursday


This is one if my favorite times of the week..Vintage Things Thursday. I love and cherish my vintage things..and seem to have a love for all things vintage. As you know by now, Sunbonnet Sue in any form is a favorite of mine, along with egg cups, thimbles,quilts, linens, chichen scratch,sewing things..patterns, dishes and the list goes on. Maybe because it was a gentler time.."back in the day". So come along with all the vintage participants..lets go over to Suzannes at
http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/
and see the lovlies everyone has gathered together. I can't wait..

Here we find our sweet little farm girls, Sunbonnet Sue and her best friend Hannah taking their baby dolls and their baby doll buggy over to visit two more bestest friends..May and Molly. At May's house, they are going to be allowed for the first time to help with the "bigger girl" chores. Today, they will be allowed to help churn butter. Now they know that butter is used for everything thats good, cause every southern girl knows that butter makes everything better..so they're quite anxious to help. May's mother is going to bake tea cakes and the girls can smear the brand new fresh chilled butter all over their tea cakes..and you know, it doesn't get any better than this.

Well, when the girls get to May's house, and get their baby dolls setteled comfortably, the work of churning butter begins. May's mother has a small stool for the girls to stand on when it's their turn to churn. She explains to them that once the churning is started, it must be done just so to make it the very best..and so they began to churn their butter from the good rich cream. Each girl took their turn..and finally it was time to take the butter out. When the butter was all out of the churn..it was put into these things..and smoothed with one of these funny spoons.

This, May's mother explained was a butter smoothing spoon.. It's used to help press and get all the whey from the good fresh butter. Now usually she said, the butter would be put into a square mold and she showed it to them. But today she said, for the tea cake party..she had a butter mold spoon that was just beautiful..and thats what they would use. She showed the girls how to put the butter in and smoosh it to get all the whey and water out...and the she quick put it on some ice to chill.

And then , came another surprize. May's mother had a tiny butter mold..called a butter stamp..it's for butter pats.. Isn't it just the cutest thing you've ever seen..and so pretty. So mother made the girls some of these as well.

Finally everything was ready. Mother had finished the butter for the girls, the tea cakes were warm from the oven...and there was even lemonade. The girls took their baby dolls out under the big shade tree, where the swing was..and there they had their little tea party. What great fun !!. For their next adventure..Hannah's mother will help them make corn shuck dolls. Won't that be fun???

16 comments:

  1. Ironic that hubby and I went strolling through an antique shop today. I kept being drawn to the butter molds and stamps. Thanks for sharing yours.

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  2. how cool! I am digging your churner :-)

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  3. Amazing butter related items, the
    sunbonnet girls are lucky to own these wonderful treasures! Great
    story! Loved your egg cup post too!

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  4. I really enjoyed your post today! Thanks for the story!

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  5. Ohhh i loved your story!!..your butter churn is fabulous as are the butter moulds :) can't wait to see your next week's VTT :)

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  6. Great story to go along with your butter items!
    I posted 5 giveaways yesterday. Check them out if you are stopping by for VTT. Deadline is Friday.

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  7. I loved your story today, loved your items, it took me back to my Childhood when we had to churn and make butter...lol..I'm afraid I didn't love it that much. It was a whole lot of work, not as easy as it sounds. But ya know what I'd love to be able to do it again now...lol...
    Thanks for sharing.

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  8. What an adorable post! I so love sun-bonnet sue...and now I am churnin and yearnin to make some homemade butter! MMMMM! Yummy post!

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  9. Great items and a wonderful story with it. I am loving the butter stamps. The only experience I have at making butter was when I was a aide for a preschool class, we made butter at Thanksgiving with a baby food jar and a marble....whoop!

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  10. Really nice items - thanks for sharing!

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  11. I love reading your post and you have made me a fan of Sunbonnet Sue again. I absolutely love Holly Hobbie and she is in that category. Your butter collection is wonderful.

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  12. OH I love the butter churn, and the spoon and all those wonderful molds. They are all so great. And the little Sunbonnet Sue's are so sweet.

    Hugs;
    Alaura

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  13. What beautiful butter molds and churn! Great story too :-)

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  14. That butter smoothing spoon is so pretty! I can just imagine the feel of that in my hands.
    What lucky little girls.

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  15. What a nice story to go along with your vintage butter items. I'd never seen a spoon like that before. My aunt churned butter and had a butter mold she put the butter in.

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  16. I used to churn butter as a child, we had butter paddles with ridges for making the butter pats. Oh how I loved that wonderful fresh butter.
    Your treasures bring back memories.....
    Roslyn

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