Ladies, do you wear an apron when you're baking?

Question

As a child, I remember all the ladies, on Sunday afternoons, putting on aprons. I thought nothing of this as they would come home from church, slip into an apron and start dinner.

Now, as an adult, I do not own an apron! lol Do you recall the usage of aprons being common?

GRACE LOL!! That's what I use too! roflol!!

Answer 1

Not only do I recall aprons being common ,they are common. (for me).
I just don't feel dressed for housework without an apron on.
Sylvia, I know what you mean. A large pocket on my apron holds all sorts of things when I clean. As for baking, it is one of my favourite pastimes. Yes, I wear an apron for baking, it is a full apron that covers from neck to below my knees. I need something that covers all of my dress ,as I start kneading and mixing I tend to get a bit over zealous. I am in a group of 5 families that take turn providing lunch after church. The hostess provides the main meal and other ladies bring a plate. Because we do not change dresses for lunch most wear an apron while in the kitchen and serving.

Answer 2

Yes, I sometimes wear an apron when I'm cooking
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Answer 3

I own one. It is a BBQ apron, left here for me by the former owner of this house.

Never wear an apron. Change my clothes after church, don't care if I get a bit splashed on.

I suppose, in a couple more generations, aprons will be the newest fashion accessory for "at home" things.

Answer 4

I have a drawer full of grandma's aprons. Some are those crocheted ones that tie around the waist. Others are out of calico print with bias tape trim that you put over your head. I have a Christmas apron made out of a sheer fabric like curtains. I think it's more just to look cute while serving the first round of munchies.

I do have a couple of my own. One is made out of old jeans with red bandanna ruffles, and the other is swimming pool blue with my name on it. They both go over my head. I am a sloppy cook and don't usually wear an apron, but sometimes I really need the extra protection.

Answer 5

My Mom had aprons that she would use when she baked. But I never got into the habit of using them...and when I took over the household baking at 12 years of age, all those aprons were put away, and eventually used for something else.

Saturday was baking day in my house. Hopefully to fill up the cookie jars and the cake tins with enough sweets to last the week. And I literally spent the whole of Saturday afternoons baking...small oat cakes, which were my families favourite--oat cookies with raisins and walnuts dropped from a spoon. Shortbread and peanut butter shortbread cookies rolled and flattened using a fork. Bachelor buttons which was like a cross between a shortbread and a sugar cookie rolled in toasted coconut and then a pocket made with the tip of your thumb-which would be filled with jam before baking. Then cinnamon loaves and coffee cakes, pineapple upside down cakes and a chocolate frosted sour cream cake to be served after Sunday dinner.

The hardest part was keeping my brothers out of the baking long enough to get it put away in the tins. I once had my closest older brother wander by and scarf up a DOZEN small oat cakes before they had even cooled enough to move them off the cooling racks.

Answer 6

The only time I ever wear an apron is if I'm wearing my good clothes while cooking. That's extremely rare. I do have some very nice aprons, and one I retrieved from my late father-in-law's things that says, "I hate housework."

BTW, my mother only wore an apron over good clothes, too, so I guess I got that honestly. My Grandma always wore one.

Answer 7

Now y'all know that I'm not a baker, but I have one hanging on a hook in the kitchen and about the only time I put it on is when I'm doing a really big dinner, like on the holidays, or when I'm doing a big pot of soup. My grandmother almost always had an apron on, and I remember one with tiny green flowers in particular. In fact, in most of the pictures that I have of her, and of my husband's grandmother also, they're both in their aprons. My mother always wore the half aprons at home and also at her job as a waitress. She saved them all, and now I have them in the cedar chest, with some of her other things.

Answer 8

Good Morning Gail, A neat question from you opens up yet another sweet memory that I may have never thought about. I remember the same things as you. I kept aprons I made and embroidered on for years in my youth. I wore them a few times for a short time, after married. I never used one for baking. My grown daughter saves them now as a memory of something her Mother made.
Funny thing about your question is, that we no longer have a land line phone and I bought a small apron, with pockets to wear while moving about in my home to keep my cell phone with me at all times. ~~~Gail, I made a mistake. It has a clothes pin embroidered on the side. Must be a clothes pin bag. Well it works great getting odds and ends from one room to another as well as carry the phone. LOL LOL.~Jill

Answer 9

I think my grandmother put on her apron when she got up in the morning; unless she was going out somewhere, it was ALWAYS on. And it was the full one, with the strap that goes up around the neck.

My mom put one too; she'd put it on to cook and then forget to take it off. She wore the half-apron that just ties around the waist. And I, too, remember her cooking in her church clothes with the apron - low heels and all. (ouch!)

I used to forget to put on an apron, and now I can't find one that will go around my waist, but I keep bar mops (terry cloth rags) handy and wipe my hands on them. They're great, because when one gets messy it goes into the wash and I grab another. I'm an apron's worst nightmare!

(So to answer your question, no.) :o)

Answer 10

If I were to believe TV from the "old days," women had to wear aprons, for they cooked in high heels, wearing a crisp, perfectly ironed shirtwaist dress with pearl accessories....IF you are frying while wearing shorts, I strongly suggest purchasing an apron! Hell, if I were to cook, I would insist on a butcher's apron made of chain link steel!