Silver Napkin Rings

Af! You get NAPKINS with your pizza!!??

 

You get NAPKINS with your pizza!

As a matter of fact I don't eat pizza, but I imagined it would be sorta messy and the customers would need something other than the hound dog to wipe the grease off on.

 

I rarely used napkin rings but my girls were raised to use napkins every day, the cloth kind and I also used them as a kid. The only NO NO or I would EXPLODE is no one under any circumstances were allowed to wipe their noses on them.

 

Hi,
Just a note to cloth napkin users. The secret is to extreme heavy starch them. I used "vintage" napkins for dinner parties and removing stains was a problem. A very nice elderly Chinese woman told me to soak them in heavy starch. I started to do that and even lipstick stains just washed right out. After they soaked, I spread them out flat on my old enamel top table to dry. That way I had no ironing, just folded them. Geesch I hate getting old, dinner parties are in the past. I still have two or three a year used to do that many in a week.
greg

 

The only starch I have is a spray bottle starch -- is there another kind? I wonder if that trick would work for table cloths, too?

 

One buys it dry -- Amazon has it, although probably your local hardware store might as well. And, yes, it works for table cloths. Incidentally, my grandmother actually Liked to iron, but she was not about to make it any more difficult than necessary. Her dining room table expanded to seat -- I think it was 14. And she had monster double damasks nearly down to the floor for it.

Come Tuesdays (Mondays, we washed, just like the rhyme), a few blankets would be laid across the table pads, the cloth against that, and away went the iron.

Although Greg's trick really is quite adequate, my grandmother's napkins had all been embroidered with her three initials (dozens of them, all done by her), and therefore they had to be ironed first on the wrong side to ward off puckering.

 

https://www.lehmans.com/p-1814-argo-laundry-starch.aspx?show=all

Argo starch.

 

they had to be ironed first on the wrong side to ward off puckering.

Once again the mind boggles. Sounds like warding off the evil eye.

"Only last sennight did five die of the Plague and seven of the Puyckering."

 

The humours seeped from the bodies long after life had ceased, sending the stench of the underworld to those of us waiting above for our turn to answer Charon's call.

 

Thanks, Shi, for the link.

 

Journal of the plague year? by Defoe Just guessing.

 

Mine was mine. Was yours yours, Af? It has such a eerie finality...

 

Mine was just my usual humour,silver. Yours was literary enough to be confusing.

 

Sometimes things slither out of my box of slithy toves...and slink silently through the stygian dark...

 

, Ah-hem, as "feather footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"

 

Um...I Waugh if you Waugh.

 

Let's not go to Waugh over trifles....................

 

Certainly not! It's one of my favorite desserts!

 

Odd choice, the Sahara is mine.