I tend to go back and forth on my thinking of an ideal kitchen.
Sometimes I lean toward this beautiful tuscan dream of a kitchen. Lots of old kitchen furniture and gorgeous tiles and stone.
Other times I dream of this primitive place with lots of shelves spilling with bottles and jars, herbs hanging from the ceiling and a huge open fire place with brick ovens opening out to a spacious garden with dozens of raised beds over flowing with herbs and vegetables mingled with flowers.
Where in the world is she going with this???
You know those kitchens you see with interesting things like oil in decanters and vinegers in cruets? I have my own idea of how things can be useful, functional and still mighty pretty.
I want to show you some of my bottles. Bottles filled with my potions and notions that I cook with, delight in using, and gaze adoringly at their prettiness.
I have lots of bottles in my kitchen. Flea market finds, ebay auctions, washed up from the earth treasures that I have washed, boiled, scrubbed and given a second life.
This bottle is a wine bottle from Italy.
Pescevino (fish wine??). It can be found at Andrews Air Force Base in the commisary. The wine isn't good but the bottle is cool. If you see one on ebay for a ridiculous amount of money and the seller tries to tell you it is a vintage bottle from Italy click the red X. Some one, some where, on some military base can get you one from the commisary. I use my bottle to decant premium imported olive oil. I mean some seriously good oil. This oil is used very sparingly. It costs to much to waste on pigging out.
This bottle is an apple shaped gem. It is a
Laird's Apple Cider fermented spirits bottle. The
Laird family has been distilling for many decades. They hold license #1 for distilling in the US. That is the first license issued by the government if you don't know. I use it to store raw, unfiltered, organic apple cider vinegar in. Good stuff. Get a bottle and have a teaspoon daily. It is good for what ailes you and to keep things from ailing you. Give some to your pets too.
This bottle is a 1968 Mrs. Butterworth syrup bottle. She is fun. She is funky. She is hip. Everything old is new again. I use this bottle to store my really good vanilla extract in. When my mother goes on her yearly cruises to the island she brings me back a big bottle. My last vanilla is in this bottle. She needs to take a cruise!
Mrs. Buttersworth is special. She is the syrup bottle I wanted as a kid. I wanted Mrs. butterworth to keep me company as I had my breakfast. But we never had Mrs. Butterworth. We came from a long line of Alaga and cane syrup eaters. Mrs. Butterworth was what the fancier, richer kids that lived in the city got on their pancakes - or was it waffles? We were country kids. We always had pancakes. Waffles was fancy smancy eatin'. Hmmm, I have some deep seated trama associated with Mrs. Butterworth. Hahaha!
Do you have any bottles I should see?
You're kidding, aren't you? I keep olive oil in an old green gin bottle from the 40's that my mom had. I keep dish detergent in a cobalt blue bottle that previously held fancy water. I have a maple-leaf shaped bottle that help syrup. I have several others bottles and jars, but they are not out on the counter now. I love yours!
I think I showed all that stuff on the old blog, but I'll check, and maybe I could re-do it.
I love your bottles! I always wanted one of those talking Mrs. Butterworth's bottles, too. In fact, as an adult Mrs. Butterworth's became my syrup of choice because it was MY kitchen and MY money and I could buy what I wanted! (Now I use dark agave nectar on pancakes & waffles, though!)
I love your bottle collection! Being the grand-daughter of a fruit farmer, that apple bottle would look very nice in my kitchen. But I also love that fish bottle! Neat-O! I like your spouts too. I will have to get some with the little cap on a chain like yours.
Fine bottles! I like the Tuscan kitchen version, myself. :-)
My friend Judy has a fish bottle just like that she keeps her dishwashing liquid in. You think you had the poor kids' pancake syrup? We were so far removed from Mrs. Butterworth's that I didn't even know it existed! My mom just made sugar syrup for pancakes. Easy. Two cups sugar to one cup water and boil until thick. It's still my favorite pancake syrup!
Just found your site and it's wonderful! I love your bottle collection too! What I'd like to know is where you find your bottle stoppers/decanters? I'm sure they're very handy.
It made me remember how my son would ask for the talking lady syrup, lol.
It took me months to find something to put dish soap in and now I want to hunt further for interesting bottles.
I wish I drank tequila since Patron has a very cool decanter.
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