Okay, so I’m finishing up questions and will be posting answers in a bit.
But… I have to make a confession first. I am not a perfect domestic goddess. And my google-fu designed to hide that fact has FAILED me.
*sighs*
I’m so mortified.
Anyway… My mother gave me these metal cylinder thingies today. They were my Godmother’s, apparently. But no one knows what they are since she purchased them right before she died and never had a chance to use them.
I mused for a while… And the only thing I can come up with is they could be candle molds. But I don’t know if their bases make a tight enough seal for that. Seems to me they would not have round bases with shaped cylinders if they were for making candles. But what do I know? My brother insisted they were for chilling cookie dough, but I thought they were sort of huge for that, and it would be hard as hell to get the dough out, or even to grease the inside if that were the case. Anyway, I’m going to stop blabbering about my useless guesswork.
They are about 9” long with 3” diameters and I have to know what they are or I will DIE.
Heeeeeelp me. (You can click for big.)
They look like shape presses – like when you were little and hand play-dough and shoved it in a tube and pressed down on it and it came out the other side in a shape. Possibly for sugar cookies?
EXTRUDER that’s the word I’m looking for! That’s my $0.02. ;P
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Chloe Reply:
March 12th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Hee! I’m totally imagining a GIANT play-doh set!
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http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.craftcave.com/candle/cimage/soaptubemolds.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.craftcave.com/candle/metalsoapmold.shtml&usg=__eBMUbQMbbjWkaFhorxDXJZ47aPs=&h=257&w=251&sz=19&hl=en&start=95&um=1&tbnid=tpV3ryTto0ZHkM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=109&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstar%2Bshaped%2Bmetal%2Bmold%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1C1CHMI_en-USUS299US303%26sa%3DN%26start%3D80%26um%3D1%26newwindow%3D1
Maybe?
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Chloe Reply:
March 12th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Oh my God, you rock. That has to be it. Thank you!
Now if only I knew how to make soap… Hrm…
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Could they be nut roll tins? Nut rolls are old fashioned afternoon tea cakes, often served in thick slices spread with butter.
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They are bread tubes. You bake a quick bread in them. I think specifically they are used for brown bread.
I was so excited that I knew what they were….heeheehee
Quinn
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Definitely date roll/nut roll tins. You grease them *very well*, fill them up 1/2-2/3 full of mixture, and when they bake the roll expands to fill the tin. You then take one end off, flip it upside down and it slides out.
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