[ExI] mangle

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 06:41:43 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/2010 7:55 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
>> Now beat this: I have helped my mother wring laundry using a
>> hand-crank operated mangle attached to the non-automatic washing
>> machine we had in the early 70's.
>
> Ha! I helped my mother haul out washing to the line to dry after she'd
> *boiled it in the copper* (as it was called) long before we had a washing
> machine.

### OK, so match me that: I was scurrying around (being a toddler in
the late 60's) as my grammy was stomping the cabbage - mixing
sauerkraut in a large tub by stomping it with bare feet, after the old
Silesian sauerkraut foot-based seasoning fashion.

Rafal



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