Re: [Cz-L] Prima Laundry

Dear all,
I remember wash day as an event for me.
Once a month THE washerwoman came. She was enormous everywhere, height and
width, (she could move a large sofa from one room to the other by herself.
When she came we ate, usually the same, brown thick bean soup and a large
loaf of mince meat with an egg in the middle. She is so vivid in my mind
because she ate with her hands even the thick soup she ate with a lot of
dark bread and shovelled it into her mouth.
The laundry had been soaked the night before in the Waschkueche, special
room with huge stove and in the middle of the stove a huge built in iron pot
where the laundry was boiled after it had been washed and then all the
procedure described before.
2 days later was ironing day. She preferred ironing on the staircase because
there was an exit door to the rear yard and she had more air there. The coal
was burning in 2 irons one she was using and the second, when the first one
was cold. On her forehead she had a white hairband soaked in water and
vinegar against what she called the "chad" the fumes.
The funniest part of it all was when the bedding was used and the pillow
cases were opened they made a TSSSS sound because of the starch having stuck
both sides together.
As for the Trapatchka. The carpets were taken out into the back yard and in
winter were beaten upside down into the snow making the snow dirty.
All long forgotten memories recalled thanks to you all.
anny

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, <fichblue_at_aol.com> wrote:

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>
> My mother, Pearl Spiegel Fichman, sometimes talked about laundry that was=
> dried on the line in winter freezing and how you had to be careful not to=
> break the ice / damage the clothing . . .
>
> Eytan
>
> Eytan Fichman, AIA=20
> B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.
>
>
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