I found these vintage glass jars at a second-hand store in Erie and I found out that they were actually designed to hold coffee. These vintage glass jars were used in Your Host family restaurant which located in many cities in NY state. The back of the jars lists the chain's locations as : Amherst, Buffalo, Cleve-Hill Plaza, Dunkirk-Fredonia, East Aurora, Hamburg, Kenmore, Lancaster, Williamsville, Rochester,The Tonawandas, Wanaka and West Seneca.
Source :straubted
According to straubted, a member of Flickr who has the same glass jar as the picture, he believed that Your Host Restaurants might have started up in the late 50s. He thought that this chain became extinct by the early 70s at the latest. People's preference for "fast food" did them in.
If you are interested in these jars, you can buy them at ebay
Well, that is a little information about the glass jars. Now let me tell you what I put in it. In the first jar, I put onion sour spicy pickle. This pickle is very easy to make. You need one big yellow onion, diced them;green chillies, sliced thinly; cherry tomatoes, cut into half, the same amount of salt, sugar and vinegar ( I put about 1 tbsp of each ingredients). And in the second jar was fried shallots.
The cherry tomatoes and the green chillies were from my small garden in the back yard.
I harvested lots of cherry tomatoes this season and I could not finish them. Any idea how to finish them? :)
3 comments:
lovely jars! thanks for your entry.
Actually, those Your Host containers were commemorative creamers. They served milk and cream in them for your coffee.
bee: thanks!
NorthShoreDad: thanks for the info!
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