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Old fashioned mamma
10-11-2003, 04:37 AM
Do you remember them? Three generations of my family on my mom's side had one. They heated their water in the water part of the stove, baked homemade bread and pies in the oven and my great granny kept my mom in the oven of hers (in a shoe box if you can imagine) when she was first born because they didn't have incubators then. She was a preemie baby and she still has burn marks from great granny doing that. Thats how she kept her alive. (My grandmother was to scared to take care of her.)

I remember when we were first married, we had one and I loved using it. Its still my dream to purchase a working one. I had almost gotten one, but the back part was all rusted out. I'm still on the hunt for one.

Do you have one or remember them? If you have one, do you use it?