Irish Whiskey Pie

If you're going to do some Irish cooking, you'd better grab yourself an apron.

But before you jump up to do that, please read the following.

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 only had a few.
It was easier to wash aprons than dresses
and they used less material, but along with
that, it served as a potholder for removing
hot pans from the oven.

It was
wonderful for drying children's tears, and on
occasion was even used for 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, 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, waved her apron, and the men 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.

REMEMBER

Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.

Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill 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.

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