What makes a Yankee Bowl?

[ranwill]

Does anyone know why yankee bowls scotch bowls are called what they are? Were they used for anything specific or just general cooking?

Randy

[moosejaw]

Well Randy,

Yankee bowls are made by Yankees, and Scotch bowls are made by cheap Yankees.  [smiley=biglaugh.gif] [smiley=biglaugh.gif]  I had asked the same question a while back, and no one knew.  I suspect it was just a name someone came up with to call the bowls, other than just "Bowl."  They were used for whatever the buyer wanted to use them for.  I don't think they were designed for any specific purpose.  I have seen large 3 legged bowls used for soap making at the local museum where I work, as well as for candle making.  

[Shearylon]

Marty, I thought they were called Yankee bowls because only Yankees bid on them.  Us Rednecks only bid on practical items like a skillet....we use it for about all our cooking needs.. Maybe one day we will make a step up and start using those more complicated things. [smiley=party.gif]....
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[Jerry Cermack]

Shearylon,
I believe your right!!!!......a yankee bowl wont fit on Mississippi stoves      :D :D :D [smiley=biglaugh.gif]

[Shearylon]

Seee Marty, I told ya!!!!..... [smiley=ani_smiles.gif] [smiley=party.gif]

[C. Perry Rapier]

A Yankee bowl is one not owned by a Confederate. However, if a Confederate does own one it is called a damn Yankee bowl.

[Shearylon]

A Yankee bowl is one not owned by a Confederate. However, if a Confederate does own one it is called a damn Yankee bowl.

There you go Marty, now you know!!!

[Steve_Stephens]

I've had my ears and eyes open for 25+ years looking for the origin of the names for all those pots but haven't found out anything.  Still hoping to find out what CLOWS means on some waffle irons.
Steve

[Baggsy]

CLOWS  -  Cooks Lots Of Waffles Scrumptious?

[Jerry Cermack]

I thought I read or heard somewhere that CLOWS was a restaurant chain?.....I might have dreamed that   [smiley=biglaugh.gif]

[Steve_Stephens]

I thought I read or heard somewhere that CLOWS was a restaurant chain?.....I might have dreamed that   [smiley=biglaugh.gif]

You did read that (in K'nC I think) Jerry and it is, sort of...
I think the chain is Clow without an "S" but that doesn't explain the plural spelling in the waffle iron.  I just don't know about any connection there and nobody has positively identified the CLOWS waffle irons as being directly connected to the restaurant chain or how or why the waffle irons came to be or where you would have bought one.
Steve
I've always said CLOWS = cooks light orange without sticking

[C. Perry Rapier]

What makes a yankee bowl? When he has loses his golf clubs. Sorry!

[moosejaw]

Oh, Oh, Oh, such wit on this forum!  And Randy, if you find a Yankee bowl with a hole in the bottom of it, then that's a Rebel bowl.  Made especially for those living south of the Mason-Dixon line.  We wanted them to have their own special bowls......ya know, something they could call their own, since all of the GOOD cast iron was made in the NORTH.  I little spit of tobacco will plug that hole up just fine.  
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[Ellis Morehead]

Just for information, the chain was spelled Clow's.  We are still looking for something to tie the CLOWS W.I. to the Clow's Waffle House chain. At least, it is a weird coincidence, at worst, a fruitless search!  The pot at the end of rainbow will be something that would clarify the question.
Cheers, Ellis

[ranwill]

Well, those very erudite answers. Still don't know tho. I wonder if the Europeans call them Yankee bowls too?


Randy

[Shearylon]

Now now Marty, us Rebels would want one with out a hole so we could use it for a spitoon!!! [smiley=party.gif]

[C. Perry Rapier]

I don't know about the rest of you all, but I had to look up that word erudite. For a minute I thought he was throwing off on us. You know, not enjoying our well-intended  humor. Well after looking up the word, I think he's putting some humor back on us, but I wouldn't swear to it.

[moosejaw]

Now Shearylon,

After a few spits, that Rebel bowl would be all plugged up.  Now it wouldn't work too well for making rabbit stew in, or boiling water to wash clothes in.....for that you would just have to get yourself a northern Yankee bowl!!!!!

However, if you insist on one of those rebel pots, then get yourself an Alabama Pipe Co. bean pot.  Heavy old suckers, and no hole.  Just like a Yankee bowl, with a lid to boot!!!!!  Multipurpose, but a bit small to wash clothes in!

[Troy_Hockensmith]

If any body cares here is an unrelated item that I thought was interesting.

My girl friend collects Davenport Ironstone. (my fault) Anyway, the pattern she started with (that I bought in ignorance and lucked into) is called Fig. Turns out this is the most sought out pattern. The pieces she collects are stamped and dated with codes. The dates on her pieces are 1856. The pieces were made in England but there was a huge market here in the states. When they first came out the pattern was called Union but with the event of civil war, sales in the southern states dropped to nothing and the company promptly changed the pattern name to fig to promote sales in the south. I just thought that was a neat tid bit.

[George B. Valentine]

Greetings Randy:  I have always liked bowls and am always looking for the type of logo's I do not have.  Some information I have picked up over time re: bowls.  How much is factual and how much is fabricated I cannot say, however what I have to offer sounds logical to me.  Bowls were introduced after flat bottom kettles and were supposedly designed so when the cook moved the food from the stove to the table the same could be spooned without tipping the hot pot.  The so called Scotch Bowls were in reference to the frugality of Scottish people ( amount of food ) whereas the Yankee ( I understand also referred to as the German Bowl years ago )  was larger and therefore named accordingly.  The Griswold flat bottom scotch bowls were supposedly introduced when enameled wood, coal, stoves were made.  This design was supposedly to prevent scratching of the enameled stove surface.  I have not seen a flat bottom Yankee bowl.  I have seen more than one Piqua with the smile logo where the bottom curvature of the scotch bowl extends beyond the bottom ring.  I have not seen any of the old logo piqua's which are like that.  Why that was done I am not sure.  It is possible the bottom would fit tightly inside certain stove fire box covers.  I have seen Erie, Griswold with an added reinforcement ring around the bowls approximate midsection.  Have not seen this with other makes.  The raised ears of the old bowls disappeared after the Griswold 1891 patent.  The raised ear types are hard to find ( in my opinion ).  The old Erie's with the script logo's are varied in types and fun to look for.  Hope this helps.  Cheerio George V