Think of savory soups or stews, cooked long and slow at home. Then casseroles, big pots of baked beans, chili and cabbage rolls. These are often made on the stove top or in the oven. Then in 1971, the Crock Pot by Rival came onto the marketplace and expanded the possibilities in home cooking.
Today, the [...]

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This vintage beauty is a 1.5 quart Pyrex glass Flameware double boiler. We found it on separate shelves in our travels, and remarried them!
Too bad they’re not making these anymore. Most of the new double boilers in today’s marketplace are stainless.
You can set up a double boiler with two pots (one somewhat smaller than [...]

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Quite likely, everyone I know grew up with Corning Ware cookware and bakeware in the Cornflower Blue pattern.
Cornflower Blue is so associated with the company that as soon as you see it, you think “Corning Ware.”

The sauce maker, though, is less common. These were sold in the 1960s and 1970s, with and without glass covers.
I’d [...]

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