Thread: Cast iron?

Originally Posted by lz6

Here is the favorite in our home for the past 50 years. I am 71 years old. My Mother had use of or was around when it was being used by her Mother. My Grandmother used it her entire life
and remembered well all the dinners and breakfasts from this pan with her Mother who could recount yankee renegade cavalry raiders cleaning out their smokehouse a couple of times. Helping themselves to the winter supply of hams, bacon and sausages.

The pan handle was broken off and welded back with brass early in it's stay with my Grandmother. The repair has never been an issue. At some point, obviously, the legs were sawed off to make it stove ready I suppose.

I cannot even begin to imagine how many batches of sausage and gravy, fried chicken and cream gravy have been served from this pay. There have been several hundred Sunday dinner pot roast's with all the fixings served when this pan was brought to the table.

There is no doubt that skillet at one time had three legs. It is a gate marked piece and date some where in the mid to later 1800's. The maker of the "spider skillet" will never be known but is indeed a great piece of family history.