H70.142.14

10 in WIDE x 2.5 in DEEP
(25.40 cm WIDE x 6.35 cm DEEP)
Gift of Joan Pearson Watkins
H70.142.14


Frying pan. Description: Iron skillet with hand-forged, rat-tail handle. From a Bodega Bay blacksmith. From the History Information Station: Object: Skillet, wrought iron, handle attached with handmade rivets. Made around 1845. History: Most food in a pioneer kitchen was either baked or fried, and the skillet usually sizzled away. Settlers ate pancakes, or flapjacks, most mornings for breakfast, with fried bacon when they could get it, and fried eggs as well. For dinner there might be stewed turnips, fried bread or dumplings, or French fried potatoes. The iron pan had to be carefully dried after each use, to keep it from rusting, but it was used so much it never had much time to rust.

Used: skillet | Food ~ utensil | Kitchen

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