The fourth word in our memory writing challenge is “stove.” I have a fascination with stoves. I once wrote a post about an Aga range. I have always wanted to own an Aga. The first memory I have of a stove that came close to an Aga was when my parents bought a cottage (it was our year-round home) on Lake Ontario. It came equipped with an old wood burning, cast iron stove.<\/p>\n
I remember my mother once baked a cherry pie in its oven with cherries that came from a tree in our garden. It was a magical. About ten years ago, I baked a cherry pie with cherries from the tree in my garden. I used my electric stove. It was fun, but it wasn’t magical.<\/p>\n
Another memory I have of these cast iron beauties is when I was eight years old. We stayed on a farm for the summer that had a big old black stove. In winter it heated the entire house. I marvelled at the clever engineering which took the heat from the stove through huge pipes that travelled up the walls and through the ceiling. A pipe went into every room carrying the hot air to the bedrooms upstairs.<\/p>\n
Getting the fire to light and keeping it lit was always tricky. However, once lit, the stove cooked several meals at a time, boiled water for laundry and simmered vats of clotted cream (in Devon) on its back ledge.<\/p>\n
Here was a workhorse, the heat and heart of a home. In summer these stoves were moved – not sure how they did this – to a back kitchen, often called the summer kitchen. The pipes were detached and heat from the stove presumably stayed away from the house.<\/p>\n
My best memories of family are tied to stoves. My grandmother had a gas stove with an eye level oven. She cooked lavish German meals on it, including desserts, Angel Food cake and Bread Pudding, to name a few. When we bought our house years ago, I inherited a stove with an oven large enough to cook two huge turkeys at the same time. I should never have replaced it.<\/p>\n
I would love to have an outdoor brick oven and I may buy a smoker next year, if I can find one I like. I am fascinated with large hearths and huge pots suspended over them. I once had an old pot belly stove that came with a large pot for baked beans. I could go on….but you get the idea.<\/p>\n
I’ll never forget a cooking class I took years ago. A woman asked, if she could replace her stove – oven and all – with a microwave. I gasped! Where would all your memories come from?<\/p>\n
Have an amazing day!<\/p>\n
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