Re: OT: Big Tupperware Sale (Modular Mates)

You're making me hungry

Arghhhhhh

My hair is grey enough thank you!

Or make tea eggs - Chinese preserved egg. Lots of effort and I'm the only one who'd eat them.

Cheryl

Try adding the cream cheese to the egg as you beat it and then make your omelets or my personal favorite, scramble with just caramelized onions

Oh, good - I'm not the only one. (And my brother was the same way). I like omelettes, and scrambled eggs for exactly that reason. I can tolerate fried eggs if the yolk is well set (and then I sort of grimace and swallow it as quickly as possible). And I can't stand deviled eggs or egg salad.

MargW

I love breakfast at dinner.

Cheryl

Egg coddlers are one of those few close to single use things. You could also use them to make mini-steamed puddings. I don't know what else you could use for doing the eggs - you need the lid, has to sit in the steaming water, and you don't want it too big. The nice thing with the coddlers is you just eat the egg right out of it, not putting it onto another plate. I think you can find them on e-bay for not too expensive. I've had mine a long time, and it was pretty funny that DH actually had a matching one buried in their dining room buffet. If you love soft boiled eggs, then I venture to say you'd get your money's worth out of the coddlers, and would love them.

Ellice

So do I. I rarely eat breakfast for breakfast except for a mug of coffee, but often eat it for dinner. I've even been known to have Special K or Rice Krispies with raisins and dried cranberries and nuts for dinner. Yum!

I have Royal Worcester (they are under bankruptcy protection now) coddlers, Blue Spray.

Easier to come by would be what is called an egg poacher, those small pans with four removable cups. Strictly speaking, since the eggs do not contact the water, they are not poached, but coddled.

Mine are the Evesham.

Yeah, but the lid goes over the whole pan, and it's just not quite the sane. I have one also, and don't like it - it was DH's moms, and I think the quasi-poached eggs sort of stick to the little pans. I either poach free-form, or do the coddled thing.

Ellice

Oooo! So are mine! Same! I've had them for - geez! - thirty years!

Well you guys have me sold. I need an egg coddler. I might just hit the local antique/resale shops and put in a request for one.

My two are Royal Worcester, (made in England) but I have no idea of the pattern name. They are sprays of berries, possibly blackberries.

BTW, my eggcups are Royal Doulton.

I nearly died, shortly before Christmas when I popped into Tuesday Morning for a look-see, and discovered that all these brands, and Spode, are made in China these days!!!!! Perhaps our old ones will sooon count as collectible???

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

ebay is the place right now, sales are slow after Xmas and it is one of the best times to bid. Just put in royal worcester egg coddlers and you will not be disappointed. There are two sizes.

That is the Lavinia pattern.

Spode was bought by Royal Worcester during the 80s. Royal Worcester continued to manufacture at their works beneath the cathedral in Worcester until eighteen months ago. I have one of the last mugs they made there to commemorate Lord Nelson, the background to the mug is the pattern they made a full dinner service of, given to him by the monarch to commemorate the Battle of the Nile. The same background pattern is used on the current Queen's Golden Jubilee mug.

After Royal Worcester ceased making their porcelain at Worcester, they moved to the potteries, not China.

Ah, thank you. I never know the names of china patterns, I tend to refer to them as "The uncle Fred dishes" or "the Aunties' dishes" because we got lots of them for wedding presents. It was known that we were emigrating a week after the wedding, dh already had a job over here and came back home for the wedding, so most people seemed to give us either dishes "because English china is SO expensive over there" or linens "so easy to pack and ship".

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

The Tuesday morning made in China could be knock-offs. There are plenty of imitations around. Depends on the pattern, though.

The last dishware we bough was our Denby - which was a big splurge - but we loce - it's heavy, glazed stoneware that we use for everyday and casual dinner parties. And is it heavy - but is also oven-micro-proof, and definitely made in Englnad. The only thing that kind of disappointed us is that you can actually see a sort of mark/shadow in the middle top of the plate above the central kind rim/lip or platform on the bottom. I just hope not to break any - we thought we'd ordererd service for 12, but instead it is for 8, though we have all kinds of plates, bowls, rice bowls, really interesting goblets, and someone actually gave us the coffee pot! For the curious - it's called "Storm" - we though apropos.

I do have a bunch of Portmeirion botanical stuff - and have seen it in Costco - as well as Home Goods - though mostly in Home Goods it's imitation stuff that is made in China. Ah, well.

ellice

I have a Denby casserole that was a splurge 50 odd years ago but still marches on in regular use.

I bought back a large, deep plate with Passion Flowers on it (for making tiddy oggies) and that had my elder daughter started. She is now completely equiped with Portmeirion and loves it to death. She can have my dish, which seemed to be a one off we have never seen it since, when I am out of here. I also have a nice coffee mug with forget me nots on it that I really love, just holds nicely, keep meaning to check it out on ebay and find another.

Glad to hear it. I think about 30 years ago my DA and my parents closest friends all got Denby for their everyday - so to speak. My cousin still has my aunt's - which I love - though the set has lost some. When I was working near Southend, I remember buying some Hornsea stoneware (different) settings for a colleague's daughters wedding - some pattern called moonstone or the like. The Ex-DH and I bpught Honrsea also which I loved - but he did also, and we decided he could keep it. It was very modern - one of the bowl styles had perfectly straight sides - like souuffle dishes. Had a lovely texture to the matte finish (ours was matte brown exterior with a glossy white interior, and glossy black striping). Great shapes on all the pieces. We actually went to Hull when we were on some business trip - visiting the pottery.

I guess we do have some similar tastes. There's something very nice about the weight, and look to me. I don't have a table service, instead a bunch of the serving/cooking pieces - large bowl, pitcher, etc. One of our English ex-pat friends gave me their quiche pan, and a souffle. I do like it a lot. She had decided she wasn't doing that kind of cooking, and wasn't going to use it - even as a server, so, voila - it showed up in my house one day. My stuff - it's tough - we've sort of been making lists of which god-children or niece/nephew gets what as they like different things. And keeping the hands of my SIL off. And, well, DH's sisters and the derelict niece wouldn't know what to do with any of it anyhow. It would sell really cheaply on ebay, I'm sure.

Ellice