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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Patricia Lapidus, post: 614731, member: 10790&quot;]I remember using a mold similar to this in the 1950s.&nbsp; Wrote a poem about it.&nbsp; You have shown me there are still such molds to be found.&nbsp; Patricia Mitchell Lapidus</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b><b>MOLD</b></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>A mold will hold a pattern.</p><p><br /></p><p>Parents mold a child to give strength of character. </p><p><br /></p><p>When Mom set me to pressing butter</p><p><br /></p><p>into the wooden molds, she made sure</p><p><br /></p><p>I pressed hard into the corners, got out all the air,</p><p><br /></p><p>building from the bottom to the top. The full molds</p><p><br /></p><p>sat in the cold.&nbsp; We took the wood apart. </p><p><br /></p><p>Behold: yellow butter flowers on the butter blocks.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Odd how that which holds must soften,</p><p><br /></p><p>must, strength gone, fold its gluten,</p><p><br /></p><p>let purpose go and dust apart. </p><p><br /></p><p>My grip is loose; I am old.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose those woods have molded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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