So I asked some friends on a Discord server what items they had from their families and still used. It came up because I was making tea and using an old metal ball tea-strainer I'd inherited from my namesake great-aunt, who, honestly, left me a lot of things. And I was wondering what the rest of you have inherited and still have, and which ones do you still use?
I have furniture, and baking gear, and a cookbook from the 1950s from Aunt P. Mom gave me kitchen stuff for my first apartment in college and those nested mixing bowls are still good and useful (and uncracked; I held them up to the light to see) after at least 60 years and gods know how many moves. I have a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary from one of Dragon's grandmothers, easily 6" thick of marble endplates doorstopper from the 1950s and honestly, if I have to look up something, it's probably in there. His other grandmother gifted me cast iron we still have.
What about the rest of y'all?
Oh, and as for what I found? Aunt P's cookbook has recipe cards tucked in and two recipes written on the front end paper. Might have to make these cookies soon.
( Jumble Cookie 'recipe' )