roadsmith
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posted on December 30, 2005 05:34:08 PM
From an old cabin, and I know these two heavy items are old--but I don't know what to call them. Cornbread pans? Scones? They're cast iron, and the batter recesses are imprinted and shaped like an ear of corn.
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sparkz
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posted on December 30, 2005 05:42:30 PM
It's called a square cast iron pot with no handle and a red "X" in the center of it. Very rare. Don't think there are any like it listed on Ebay right now.
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sparkz
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posted on December 30, 2005 05:45:15 PM
They're cornbread pans.
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roadsmith
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posted on December 30, 2005 05:45:30 PM
Yo! Sparkz! I'm serious! But thanks for the alternate title.
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roadsmith
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posted on December 30, 2005 05:46:16 PM
Sparkz, take a look at the original message at top; I finally got the pictures in. Any changes in your guess?
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cletusray
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posted on December 30, 2005 05:58:29 PM
From the Arkansan in the bunch-- They are for cornbread sticks
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OhMsLucy
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posted on December 30, 2005 06:14:54 PM
Cletusray is correct. Cornbread stick pans.
Not to be confused with other cast iron pans which are designed for cooking Danish pancake balls... You know, those things they sell in Solvang. 
I wonder what would happen if one tried cooking an aebleskiver in a cornbread stick pan? Would it work? Would it have little kernels on it?
Lucy
Editing to suggest checking out cornstick pans. Ain't it great when the CRS goes away for a minute or two?
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sparkz
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posted on December 30, 2005 06:16:51 PM
The name cornbread molds comes to mind. I looked it up some time ago. I may still have one buried around here someplace.
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tOMWiii
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posted on December 30, 2005 06:27:08 PM
VERY RARE, and really, quite good timing, what with the release of the film: "The New World"
During that first winter in JAMESTOWN, food was veeery scarce. Employing THESE very same cast-iron molds, POCHOHANTAS taught the colonists how to mold snow into "cornsicles," to fool their rumbling tummies!
"Colored" snow was sometimes employed for that added touch of realism...
Thus Capt John Smith lived a long life and, along with his brother, found fame & fortune as COUGH-DROP magnates!
As David Steinberg used to say to his dog:
"Booga, booga, booga..."
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cblev65252
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posted on December 30, 2005 06:45:57 PM
wonder what would happen if one tried cooking an aebleskiver in a cornbread stick pan?
LOL, Lucy!! The good old aebleskiver pan.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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irked
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posted on December 30, 2005 06:53:26 PM
I have one , well the wife has one that was her grandmothers and it makes the absolute best cornbread sticks ever.
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Can't touch this! hu huh, uh huh.
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OhMsLucy
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posted on December 30, 2005 06:56:13 PM
Hi Cheryl,
That escargot-Aebleskiver thing dates back to July of 2003. Amazing how things stay in your brain, isn't it? 
I gifted my middle son with an Aebleskiver pan this Christmas. The best way I could figure to get my own back!
Lucy
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LtRay
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posted on December 30, 2005 07:52:36 PM
Any good ole southerner knows these are Corn Pone (pronounced with a long o) pans!
You can't have a bowl of beans without a good pone pan.
You have an old wood stove handle stuck in the first one. By the way, you also have the wrong end stuck in it.
"You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is." - Mark Twain
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roadsmith
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posted on December 30, 2005 08:29:38 PM
Thanks, everybody, for your great help! So I have cornpone pans, or I have cornbread molds, or cornbread stick pans. Hmmmm.
LtRay: I know I have the wrong end of the handle in that one pan, but that's the way the lady of the house always used it. Turned the other way, the handle falls through the opening.
These two suckers weigh 7 pounds to ship, so I may be able to put them in a flat-rate priority box and save a bundle for the lucky winner.
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mcjane
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posted on December 30, 2005 09:05:51 PM
Tom, and just what did colonists color the snow with or what color was it. 
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sparkz
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posted on December 30, 2005 09:28:31 PM
Roadsmith...These originated in Europe. They were introduced to the U.S. by the French in New Orleans in 1715. They were originally used in gourmet restaurants to cook a decorative escargot delicacy shaped like an ear of corn. A visitor from Arkansas obtained one, took it home, and his wife refused to cook escargot in it. Instead she poured in corn meal and a southern tradition was born. So don't let Lucy pull the wool over your eyes by claiming they are for cooking aebleskiver
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LtRay
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posted on December 30, 2005 09:44:24 PM
Nonsense Sparkz! 
These orginated in Kuba where they were used to make a corn cob image of your adversary.
The cast iron originally came from the shakles of freed slaves who the Spaniards imported to harvest their sukar kanes.
With the proper ingredients of roosters blood taken on the dark of the moon, lizard's toenails and gall of a blowfish, you chanted your foes name as the moon was waning while mixing the batter with Timwii's yellow snow.
Once placed into the pone pan, the creamed ingredients are left to simmer slowly over a fire made of mango wood. When the tops turned brown, you removed it from the fire with a cypress stick and placed it on a coquina stone to cool. Once cooled, the forms (which now contain the essence of your enemy) are placed on the ground and stomped into oblivion.
*Edited to make my bounce bounce.*
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sparkz
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posted on December 30, 2005 09:59:34 PM
Ltray...What are you doing over here? You're supposed to be getting those Jarts ready to list tomorrow for a three day auction. Think about it. The first day of a three day weekend. A skeleton staff at Ebay (and most of them will be drunk), a gillion listings from U.S. dime day and the U.K. promo to hide amongst. No way will they be able to catch that auction.
Your concotion was starting to look plausable until you got to the part about Tom's yellow snow. I think I'd rather go with the snails
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buyhigh
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posted on December 30, 2005 10:04:19 PM
Can I assume that when sparkz called these rare, he was making a big joke? They are ofcourse quite common and were made for years. The most recent ones have been made from cast aluminum which makes the task of dragging them out of the oven a lot easier. The question is - Are they worth the new shipping cost of $8.10 USPS in addition to the final bid price. This because I have seen them sitting at swap meets ( Jack S Webb type swapmeets)for $3.00 with no takers.
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roadsmith
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posted on December 30, 2005 10:21:19 PM
Buyhigh, I get what you're saying about the saleability of these pans. I promised to sell them for an older friend who needs the money, and I'm hoping they'll sell to someone who doesn't see them frequently at swapmeets. Worth a try, I guess, but, yes, they are heavy as aitch.
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LtRay
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posted on December 30, 2005 10:27:27 PM
Dang Sparkz, thanks for reminding me. I had almost forgotten. I'll get right on it!
Hmm, wonder if I can squeeze them into a flat rate envelope???
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LtRay
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posted on December 30, 2005 10:35:15 PM
well, it looks like at least two people know what a corn pone pan is...
http://cgi.ebay.com/wagner-pat-1920-cast-iron-corn-pone-cob-pan-nr_W0QQitemZ6240048122QQcategoryZ976QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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OhMsLucy
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posted on December 31, 2005 01:28:57 AM
Hi all,
Having just finished up the second round of Monopoly with son John and DIL Sneha (I got royally skunked both games...) thought I'd chime in one more time...
When you get right down to it, these honkin' heavy cast iron things actually have a dual purpose. Sparkz mentioned escargot and he's absotively posolutely right. 100% kee-rect.
The deal is you put your Aebleskiver batter in the corn cob shaped holes. Then you toss in two or three escargot.
Turn the Aebleskiver with PMelcher's snazzy knitting needles.
Remove from the pan and serve them forth to whoever is brave enough to sample an escargot/Aebleskiver. (I'd prolly skip the Lingonberry stuff.)
And now I am off to bed.
Lucy
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LtRay
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posted on December 31, 2005 03:11:04 AM
Jimmine Christmas Crocus LucI! That's combination sounds just gross enough to make them s-car-goes blow a head gasket!
. When your ship comes in.... make sure you are willing to unload it. .
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ms24ktau
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posted on December 31, 2005 05:49:28 AM
You people are all DELIGHTFULLY crazy !!!!
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photosensitive
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posted on December 31, 2005 10:01:31 AM
I have my grandmother's set of cornbread pans hanging on a butcher's rack in my kitchen. Think they might sell as "vintage" kitchen decor rather than usable cooking utensils. At first I though they were like mine with the two pans intended (as I understand from my grandmother) to be used together so the sticks rise and fill the top pan to make an entire ear or corn. She always used them to make two batches of 1/2 ears. Looking more closely I see that the top pan has the direction of the ears alternating and the bottom pan has them all going in one direction so they must not have been intended to be used that way. Is the object on the right side of the top pan a removable lifter?
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