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Martin James How funny. That's my range and girdle. I must have posted that pic somewhere else. Nice to see it shared. The range was made by T J Watters of Christchurch pre 1900. I've cooked in it fir about 43 years, often for large groups, the biggest was a continuous dinner for 70. I was young once Map[1] External LinkI come from Millerton - FB grouopContributorJeffsplace Granity
Martin James How funny. That's my range and girdle. I must have posted that pic somewhere else. Nice to see it shared. The range was made by T J Watters of Christchurch pre 1900. I've cooked in it fir about 43 years, often for large groups, the biggest was a continuous dinner for 70. I was young once Map[1] External LinkI come from Millerton - FB grouopContributorJeffsplace Granity
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Date Created29th March 2022CommentsMartin James
How funny. That's my range and girdle. I must have posted that pic somewhere else. Nice to see it shared. The range was made by T J Watters of Christchurch pre 1900. I've cooked in it fir about 43 years, often for large groups, the biggest was a continuous dinner for 70. I was young once
Martin James
Freshly swept and black leaded. Waiting for the lead to dry and a final polish
Nina Townsend
Still have my girdle but unfortunately no coal range anymore
Jeffsplace Granity
I'm lucky to have both, I bought and fitted an older green Wellstood into my new home, was new 28 years ago, I use the range a lot
Nina Townsend
Jeffsplace Granity had a beautiful shacklock in my mums house then was lucky enough to have 1 in the last home i rented. Now im a old biddy with cancer & moved again i have a heat pump how i miss my fire but then hear the neighbours out in the rain fi… See more
Jeffsplace Granity
Nina Townsend youre fighter Nina,, good bless x
Jock Allen
Is it called a griddle or girddel ??anyway they were the best scones and pikelets ever
Judy Davis
Jock Allen Griddle
Wendy Bruce
Judy Davis ‘girdle’ in our house and pikelets/scones cooked on girdle heated by a J.E.Shacklock & Sons from Liverpool.
Jenny Jones
Jock Allen It's bloody girddel.
Caroline Crann
Girdle .... good for scones too
Jill Sinclair
Jenny Jones I remember going to Nana’s in the Tram an she would be doing this on her coal range. Beautiful memories
Nova Hichens
Jenny Jones yes we always called it a girdle.
Heather Newby
Jock Allen apparently there were two names.. girdle and griddle.. Girdle came from England.
Garry Mcsherry
Heather Newby griddle came from America also, hot biscuits on the griddle,
I thought a girdle was what women ware
Heather Newby
Garry Mcsherry The griddle scone (most dialects of English) or girdle scone (Scots and Northumbrian English) is a variety of scone which is baked on a griddle or frying pan rather than in an oven.
Caroline Dunlop
Our stove was later, and an Orion, later replaced with a Wellstood, but there was one of those girdles. Grandma was a dab hand at girdle scones, and Mum pikelets.
Jeffsplace Granity
I reposted that last night on my groups page 'I come from Millerton', you were onto it.
Deborah Taylor
Mum always did this when we were growing up
Anne Lambe
I have one of these from your place.
Anne Lambe
Geoffrey Bell
I still have one. "Girdle" scones made on the "Griddle". They are called "Girdles" in the UK.
Heather Newby
Geoffrey Bell we always called it a girdle
Jeffsplace Granity
Heather Newby used to make oneself appear slimmer,, whale bones, strings n all ?
Marilyn Grady
Heather Newby
My grandmothers parents were scottish. Loved her “griddle scones.”
Richard Howe
Can remember an Aunt making girdle (griddle ) scones like that on her coal range.
Susan Carrington Baistow Siddall
Very cool our late Mum made these on one of those..so long ago and lovely memories
Wendy Gilmour
Mum made beautiful piklets on her girdle that her mother Agnus Jamieson bought out from Scotland
Debbie Ansett
Wendy Gilmour Nana made piklets and scones on the girdle. Don’t turn the piklets until you get bubbles
Dorothy Wills
My Mum had a great one that we hung over the open fire too I had it for awhile and used it on a Rayburn stove but have no idea where it is now but probably wouldn’t be as good on these fancy electric stoves
Emma Mcleod
Awesome
Thelma Coutts
Does that bring back memories. My Mum made them too, and scones on the girdle. They were great too.
Elaine Lawson Stone
Thelma Coutts and shortbread in the oven
Margaret Grant
Id love to no where my mothers got too.
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Anna Hynes
Margaret Grant I think I threw mum's out .... Before fb days when I could have found someone who wanted it
Margaret Grant
Anna Hynes as we get older and look back ae
Margaret Malloch
Yummy also ginger gems like that wonderful
Gabrelle Hart
Reminds me of nannas.
Pete Doncliff
griddle definition griddle /grid(a)l/ noun 1. a heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food. "griddle cakes" 2. HISTORICAL a miner's wire-bottomed sieve. verb 1. cook on a griddle. "the vegetables can be griddled the day before and kept covered in the fridge" 2. HISTORICAL screen (ore) with a griddle. "black copper ore is generally griddled out" Discover Snapshot Search Collections'
Dave Ogle
Pete Doncliff I'm glad someone still likes prescise language.(although it took me 3 tries to get prescise)
Pete Doncliff
May be an image of text that says '11:35 Vo)) 46% girdle definition girdle1 /'ga:d(a)l/ See definitions in: All Fashion Anatomy noun Timber 1. belt or cord worn round the waist. "her waist was defined by gold chain girdle" Similar: belt sash strap 2. a woman's elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh. "she wears corsets and girdles, tight and uncomfortable" Similar: corset verb corselet 1. encircle (the body) with girdle. "the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist" cut through the harl all the SAIAN round ) trea Discover Snapshot Search Collections'
Kathy Mintrom
bet cooking ever
Lynn Sheldon
Exactly the same as my mum did
Dave Ogle
I see on West Coast buy/sell just now a very tidy older AGA stove. Hard to get coke, so it would need good coal. Bet it would make great scones, in or on.
Jeffsplace Granity
Dave Ogle true,, they do pop up now and then, i have a tidy Wellstood that i bought in Timaru 30 years ago to put into my home i was building in Granity, it's a real treasure, heats the house, the water, can cook on it, boils the whistling kettle and p… See more
Dave Ogle
Jeffsplace Granity Great! I love those old Wellstoods and Rayburns. I have a Rayburn series one, patent applied for is cast into the firebox door plate. I'd like to restore it one day
Jeffsplace Granity
Dave Ogle tis a bit grubby at the mo
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Jeffsplace Granity
Dave Ogle Agas i believe were mostly top loading coke burners, popular in Nelson were most of the coke from the Granity coke ovens was shipped too ?
Martin James
Dave Ogle coke is no longer produced in New Zealand. We import it from Australia!!
Heather Reid
That's not going
Martin James
Heather Reid ? What's not going?
Heather Reid
Martin James the coal range
Deborah Sweetman
I would love one. Bit warm in Perth to have one of those burning all day.
Phyllis Aberhart
Yummy
Jenny Leach
I had one of these coal ranges and loved cooking on it loved roast dinners on Sundays food tasted so much better,also cakes were great
Trevor Keith Scott
Jenny Leach Must agree with you there, as a young man cooking on them in Otira in the railway huts. Then married and moved later on into Railway house Otira & Springfiels.
Linda Reedy
Thats how Nana Reedy(Jacks mother) made them on the girdle coal range they were always so perfect in colour and taste with butter raspberry jam n cream yum yum
Thelma Coutts
That’s right Elaine. Can’t you just smell it all.xxx
Elaine Lawson Stone
Thelma Coutts yep, brings back memories
Thomas Peter Mulligan
My mum use to make pikelets on top of the coal range great to eat still hot
Dea Minehan
Nan had one too Wendy Gilmour ,wonder if they came out together
Wendy Gilmour
Dea Minehan would have as thats what they would have used all the time xx
Dea Minehan
Wendy Gilmour think it's at Julie Madigan place
Linda King
My Mum also made scones on this plus the roast dinners from the cold range nothing now tastes or smells as good. Plus the big pot of soup always hot on the stove in the winter time.
Les Bryce
Linda King And Mrs Maher's hot cocoa in the winter at lunchtime
Vicki Woolhouse
I all ways went to my dads and made the best Xmas cakes in the oven
Di Mackie
Oh yes I remember my Nan using one on the coal range
Caroline Crann
Gsvin still makes them down at the Miners Hut on mum and Dads girdle. Mum was the pikelet queen and Dad the scone king and if we were lucky he'd make potato scones for us! yummm
Jo Wickett
I use a griddle a lot. On the road full time. Makes great biscuits too
Pauline Kirker
Best pikelets ever made on those girdles, so sad you can’t get them any longer, make mine in non stick fry pan.
Lynnette Walford
Our Mum had one in Denniston used to make the best griddle scones ever and us 7 kids would all be waiting for the next batch,makes great pancakes and pikelets ..
Shona Campbell
I have Mum's one and use it often, unfortunately I don't have a wood range to put it on.
Lynn Day
Those were the days. My grandmother made them just like that
Fiona Steffens
My gran had a little black Shacklock and used to make pikelets and griddle scones, good memories
Beryl Heperi
I still make pikeletswith my mums on the gas stove top.
Bob Laing
I remember my grandmother Daisy cooking scones and picklets on a girdle. That was 65 + years ago. Mum had a griddle as well. Both made “to die for” picklets and all sorts of scones.
Garry Mcsherry
Well I love my old farm life I love my old fiddle suns coming up I’ve got cakes the griddle “””””” John Denver
Marilyn Hill
Mum had one made yum pikelets and giddle scones
Miree Gibson
Oh the memories
Nikita Taylor
Griddle... a girdle is a womens undergarment
Nikita Taylor
And just like that, I decided I'm having pikelets for tea
Alison Blogs
pikelets, yum. havent made them in years
Suzie Breeze
Missing my coal range
Bernadette Laing
Me to and we had griddle
Raewyn Louttit
We loved it
Alison Hale
Mums Rayburn never burnt our tea weather that was good management or the type of stove I don't know. But my family were constantly greeted with burnt offerings on the electric. ......poor management????
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Yvone Reid
Makes me think of my mum .
Cecily Woolhouse
How I would love to get my hands on one of these. Dad made potato scones on this fir supper some nights, ohhh, they were good, I'm dribbling. I learnt to make pikelets on one,
Erin Walecki
Cecily 1st thing I thought of was Gram when I read that, oh the memories of all her baking on the coal range
Bob Laing
Cecily Woolhouse
I remember potato scones and we can get potato sourdough bread in one of our supermarkets.
Karen Mary Madgwick
My Gran cooked so many picklets on her beautiful cool range. I so loved staying in Waimangaroa with Gran Hill... Such happy times....
Shona Ratana
Coal range, Girdle Piklets on Sundays. Mum could not make them quick enough for us children all those years ago?? Happy Memories.
Christina Fairhurst
I remember Auntie Nell making piglets just like this on her coal range in Dunollie
Denise Scott
That's how I learnt to cook pikelets when I was tall enough to reach the girdle safely. Something about food cooked on a coal range makes it delicious.
Denise Scott
Butter and drippy golden syrup on hot pikelets. What's your favourite topping.
Joy Hill-Cooper
Use to have one of them
Sandi McGowan
Like many this image brings back memories of home. My Mum's griddle is now in my cupboard wIting till I don't have an induction cook top.
Judy Reeves
WOULD LOVE T HAVE 1...DO PICKELTS ALL THE TIME
Simon Hardy
Hi Heather - Thanks for admitting me to the Group.
Thomas John Watters, proprietor of T. J. Watters Range Manufacturer, was one of my GGGrandfathers. Apparently one of the top range makers in NZ. Great to hear that his products are still in use!!
May be art
Simon Hardy
Hi Tony - Just wondering if you are connected to this Thomas John Watters who lived in Christchurch for many years after immigrating from Helston, Cornwall, UK in the late 1860s? He had a son & one of his grandsons with the same name, along with 4 daughters. Cheers.
Joe Kelly
We had one when I was a boy!
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Tony Price
My grammars both used coal range and were amazing cooks great piklets
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Peter Gray
Memories……i can smell them from here
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Jeff Hopkins
Isn't it called a Gridle.?.
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Heather Newby
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Jeff Hopkins In the Scots language and the Northumbrian English dialect, a griddle is called a girdle. The transposition of the sounds is due to linguistic metathesis. Therefore, griddle scones are known as girdle scones.
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Patricia Stephens
Jeff Hopkins no Girdle
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Anne Mcmillan Miller
Loved my coal range back in the day
Lesley Parker Butland
Mum used to cook girdle scones on one of these. They were delicious
Dorothy Wills
I used to cook my pikelets in a fry pan but on a Rayburn wood range, my Mum had a girdle she hung over the open fire, but I never managed to get hold of it, it was a good one too
Lorraine Walsdorf
My Mum cooked pikelets on one of those on a coal range in Westport, my brother has it now and still cooks pikelets on it
Noeline Pinn
They made the best pikelets.
Bev McClimont
I learnt to make pikelets on a gridle just like this. We had a Heat Storage Range and you had to have a gridle to put on the solid element. I hate to see gridles for sale in second hand shops that have been painted with alluminium paint, iit renders them useless.
Miree Gibson
Used a girdle quite alot when cooking for shearers where we had no power. Coal ranges- just loved them.
Jeanette Cardwell
And the iron is also waiting to be used.
Bid Johnson
Still use one
Ed Dando
Heather Dando was a champion piklet maker
Rex Thomas
Grandma's is still going strong
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Jeanette Cardwell
And the iron is also waiting to be used.
Caroline Dunlop
That goes back a bit. As well as Mum’s Pikelets, Grandma cooked girdle scones on ours. First an Orion coal range, and later a Wellstood.
Alison Armstrong
Cant beat the flavour either. Yum.
Lyla Al-Alawi
The best...mum could hardly keep us away ....mmmmm
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Lesley Parker Butland
Mum used to cook girdle scones on one of these. They were delicious
Dorothy Wills
I used to cook my pikelets in a fry pan but on a Rayburn wood range, my Mum had a girdle she hung over the open fire, but I never managed to get hold of it, it was a good one too
How funny. That's my range and girdle. I must have posted that pic somewhere else. Nice to see it shared. The range was made by T J Watters of Christchurch pre 1900. I've cooked in it fir about 43 years, often for large groups, the biggest was a continuous dinner for 70. I was young once
Martin James
Freshly swept and black leaded. Waiting for the lead to dry and a final polish
Nina Townsend
Still have my girdle but unfortunately no coal range anymore
Jeffsplace Granity
I'm lucky to have both, I bought and fitted an older green Wellstood into my new home, was new 28 years ago, I use the range a lot
Nina Townsend
Jeffsplace Granity had a beautiful shacklock in my mums house then was lucky enough to have 1 in the last home i rented. Now im a old biddy with cancer & moved again i have a heat pump how i miss my fire but then hear the neighbours out in the rain fi… See more
Jeffsplace Granity
Nina Townsend youre fighter Nina,, good bless x
Jock Allen
Is it called a griddle or girddel ??anyway they were the best scones and pikelets ever
Judy Davis
Jock Allen Griddle
Wendy Bruce
Judy Davis ‘girdle’ in our house and pikelets/scones cooked on girdle heated by a J.E.Shacklock & Sons from Liverpool.
Jenny Jones
Jock Allen It's bloody girddel.
Caroline Crann
Girdle .... good for scones too
Jill Sinclair
Jenny Jones I remember going to Nana’s in the Tram an she would be doing this on her coal range. Beautiful memories
Nova Hichens
Jenny Jones yes we always called it a girdle.
Heather Newby
Jock Allen apparently there were two names.. girdle and griddle.. Girdle came from England.
Garry Mcsherry
Heather Newby griddle came from America also, hot biscuits on the griddle,
I thought a girdle was what women ware
Heather Newby
Garry Mcsherry The griddle scone (most dialects of English) or girdle scone (Scots and Northumbrian English) is a variety of scone which is baked on a griddle or frying pan rather than in an oven.
Caroline Dunlop
Our stove was later, and an Orion, later replaced with a Wellstood, but there was one of those girdles. Grandma was a dab hand at girdle scones, and Mum pikelets.
Jeffsplace Granity
I reposted that last night on my groups page 'I come from Millerton', you were onto it.
Deborah Taylor
Mum always did this when we were growing up
Anne Lambe
I have one of these from your place.
Anne Lambe
Geoffrey Bell
I still have one. "Girdle" scones made on the "Griddle". They are called "Girdles" in the UK.
Heather Newby
Geoffrey Bell we always called it a girdle
Jeffsplace Granity
Heather Newby used to make oneself appear slimmer,, whale bones, strings n all ?
Marilyn Grady
Heather Newby
My grandmothers parents were scottish. Loved her “griddle scones.”
Richard Howe
Can remember an Aunt making girdle (griddle ) scones like that on her coal range.
Susan Carrington Baistow Siddall
Very cool our late Mum made these on one of those..so long ago and lovely memories
Wendy Gilmour
Mum made beautiful piklets on her girdle that her mother Agnus Jamieson bought out from Scotland
Debbie Ansett
Wendy Gilmour Nana made piklets and scones on the girdle. Don’t turn the piklets until you get bubbles
Dorothy Wills
My Mum had a great one that we hung over the open fire too I had it for awhile and used it on a Rayburn stove but have no idea where it is now but probably wouldn’t be as good on these fancy electric stoves
Emma Mcleod
Awesome
Thelma Coutts
Does that bring back memories. My Mum made them too, and scones on the girdle. They were great too.
Elaine Lawson Stone
Thelma Coutts and shortbread in the oven
Margaret Grant
Id love to no where my mothers got too.
Reply7h
Anna Hynes
Margaret Grant I think I threw mum's out .... Before fb days when I could have found someone who wanted it
Margaret Grant
Anna Hynes as we get older and look back ae
Margaret Malloch
Yummy also ginger gems like that wonderful
Gabrelle Hart
Reminds me of nannas.
Pete Doncliff
griddle definition griddle /grid(a)l/ noun 1. a heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food. "griddle cakes" 2. HISTORICAL a miner's wire-bottomed sieve. verb 1. cook on a griddle. "the vegetables can be griddled the day before and kept covered in the fridge" 2. HISTORICAL screen (ore) with a griddle. "black copper ore is generally griddled out" Discover Snapshot Search Collections'
Dave Ogle
Pete Doncliff I'm glad someone still likes prescise language.(although it took me 3 tries to get prescise)
Pete Doncliff
May be an image of text that says '11:35 Vo)) 46% girdle definition girdle1 /'ga:d(a)l/ See definitions in: All Fashion Anatomy noun Timber 1. belt or cord worn round the waist. "her waist was defined by gold chain girdle" Similar: belt sash strap 2. a woman's elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh. "she wears corsets and girdles, tight and uncomfortable" Similar: corset verb corselet 1. encircle (the body) with girdle. "the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist" cut through the harl all the SAIAN round ) trea Discover Snapshot Search Collections'
Kathy Mintrom
bet cooking ever
Lynn Sheldon
Exactly the same as my mum did
Dave Ogle
I see on West Coast buy/sell just now a very tidy older AGA stove. Hard to get coke, so it would need good coal. Bet it would make great scones, in or on.
Jeffsplace Granity
Dave Ogle true,, they do pop up now and then, i have a tidy Wellstood that i bought in Timaru 30 years ago to put into my home i was building in Granity, it's a real treasure, heats the house, the water, can cook on it, boils the whistling kettle and p… See more
Dave Ogle
Jeffsplace Granity Great! I love those old Wellstoods and Rayburns. I have a Rayburn series one, patent applied for is cast into the firebox door plate. I'd like to restore it one day
Jeffsplace Granity
Dave Ogle tis a bit grubby at the mo
No photo description available.
Jeffsplace Granity
Dave Ogle Agas i believe were mostly top loading coke burners, popular in Nelson were most of the coke from the Granity coke ovens was shipped too ?
Martin James
Dave Ogle coke is no longer produced in New Zealand. We import it from Australia!!
Heather Reid
That's not going
Martin James
Heather Reid ? What's not going?
Heather Reid
Martin James the coal range
Deborah Sweetman
I would love one. Bit warm in Perth to have one of those burning all day.
Phyllis Aberhart
Yummy
Jenny Leach
I had one of these coal ranges and loved cooking on it loved roast dinners on Sundays food tasted so much better,also cakes were great
Trevor Keith Scott
Jenny Leach Must agree with you there, as a young man cooking on them in Otira in the railway huts. Then married and moved later on into Railway house Otira & Springfiels.
Linda Reedy
Thats how Nana Reedy(Jacks mother) made them on the girdle coal range they were always so perfect in colour and taste with butter raspberry jam n cream yum yum
Thelma Coutts
That’s right Elaine. Can’t you just smell it all.xxx
Elaine Lawson Stone
Thelma Coutts yep, brings back memories
Thomas Peter Mulligan
My mum use to make pikelets on top of the coal range great to eat still hot
Dea Minehan
Nan had one too Wendy Gilmour ,wonder if they came out together
Wendy Gilmour
Dea Minehan would have as thats what they would have used all the time xx
Dea Minehan
Wendy Gilmour think it's at Julie Madigan place
Linda King
My Mum also made scones on this plus the roast dinners from the cold range nothing now tastes or smells as good. Plus the big pot of soup always hot on the stove in the winter time.
Les Bryce
Linda King And Mrs Maher's hot cocoa in the winter at lunchtime
Vicki Woolhouse
I all ways went to my dads and made the best Xmas cakes in the oven
Di Mackie
Oh yes I remember my Nan using one on the coal range
Caroline Crann
Gsvin still makes them down at the Miners Hut on mum and Dads girdle. Mum was the pikelet queen and Dad the scone king and if we were lucky he'd make potato scones for us! yummm
Jo Wickett
I use a griddle a lot. On the road full time. Makes great biscuits too
Pauline Kirker
Best pikelets ever made on those girdles, so sad you can’t get them any longer, make mine in non stick fry pan.
Lynnette Walford
Our Mum had one in Denniston used to make the best griddle scones ever and us 7 kids would all be waiting for the next batch,makes great pancakes and pikelets ..
Shona Campbell
I have Mum's one and use it often, unfortunately I don't have a wood range to put it on.
Lynn Day
Those were the days. My grandmother made them just like that
Fiona Steffens
My gran had a little black Shacklock and used to make pikelets and griddle scones, good memories
Beryl Heperi
I still make pikeletswith my mums on the gas stove top.
Bob Laing
I remember my grandmother Daisy cooking scones and picklets on a girdle. That was 65 + years ago. Mum had a griddle as well. Both made “to die for” picklets and all sorts of scones.
Garry Mcsherry
Well I love my old farm life I love my old fiddle suns coming up I’ve got cakes the griddle “””””” John Denver
Marilyn Hill
Mum had one made yum pikelets and giddle scones
Miree Gibson
Oh the memories
Nikita Taylor
Griddle... a girdle is a womens undergarment
Nikita Taylor
And just like that, I decided I'm having pikelets for tea
Alison Blogs
pikelets, yum. havent made them in years
Suzie Breeze
Missing my coal range
Bernadette Laing
Me to and we had griddle
Raewyn Louttit
We loved it
Alison Hale
Mums Rayburn never burnt our tea weather that was good management or the type of stove I don't know. But my family were constantly greeted with burnt offerings on the electric. ......poor management????
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Yvone Reid
Makes me think of my mum .
Cecily Woolhouse
How I would love to get my hands on one of these. Dad made potato scones on this fir supper some nights, ohhh, they were good, I'm dribbling. I learnt to make pikelets on one,
Erin Walecki
Cecily 1st thing I thought of was Gram when I read that, oh the memories of all her baking on the coal range
Bob Laing
Cecily Woolhouse
I remember potato scones and we can get potato sourdough bread in one of our supermarkets.
Karen Mary Madgwick
My Gran cooked so many picklets on her beautiful cool range. I so loved staying in Waimangaroa with Gran Hill... Such happy times....
Shona Ratana
Coal range, Girdle Piklets on Sundays. Mum could not make them quick enough for us children all those years ago?? Happy Memories.
Christina Fairhurst
I remember Auntie Nell making piglets just like this on her coal range in Dunollie
Denise Scott
That's how I learnt to cook pikelets when I was tall enough to reach the girdle safely. Something about food cooked on a coal range makes it delicious.
Denise Scott
Butter and drippy golden syrup on hot pikelets. What's your favourite topping.
Joy Hill-Cooper
Use to have one of them
Sandi McGowan
Like many this image brings back memories of home. My Mum's griddle is now in my cupboard wIting till I don't have an induction cook top.
Judy Reeves
WOULD LOVE T HAVE 1...DO PICKELTS ALL THE TIME
Simon Hardy
Hi Heather - Thanks for admitting me to the Group.
Thomas John Watters, proprietor of T. J. Watters Range Manufacturer, was one of my GGGrandfathers. Apparently one of the top range makers in NZ. Great to hear that his products are still in use!!
May be art
Simon Hardy
Hi Tony - Just wondering if you are connected to this Thomas John Watters who lived in Christchurch for many years after immigrating from Helston, Cornwall, UK in the late 1860s? He had a son & one of his grandsons with the same name, along with 4 daughters. Cheers.
Joe Kelly
We had one when I was a boy!
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Tony Price
My grammars both used coal range and were amazing cooks great piklets
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Peter Gray
Memories……i can smell them from here
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Jeff Hopkins
Isn't it called a Gridle.?.
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Heather Newby
Author
Admin
Jeff Hopkins In the Scots language and the Northumbrian English dialect, a griddle is called a girdle. The transposition of the sounds is due to linguistic metathesis. Therefore, griddle scones are known as girdle scones.
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Patricia Stephens
Jeff Hopkins no Girdle
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Anne Mcmillan Miller
Loved my coal range back in the day
Lesley Parker Butland
Mum used to cook girdle scones on one of these. They were delicious
Dorothy Wills
I used to cook my pikelets in a fry pan but on a Rayburn wood range, my Mum had a girdle she hung over the open fire, but I never managed to get hold of it, it was a good one too
Lorraine Walsdorf
My Mum cooked pikelets on one of those on a coal range in Westport, my brother has it now and still cooks pikelets on it
Noeline Pinn
They made the best pikelets.
Bev McClimont
I learnt to make pikelets on a gridle just like this. We had a Heat Storage Range and you had to have a gridle to put on the solid element. I hate to see gridles for sale in second hand shops that have been painted with alluminium paint, iit renders them useless.
Miree Gibson
Used a girdle quite alot when cooking for shearers where we had no power. Coal ranges- just loved them.
Jeanette Cardwell
And the iron is also waiting to be used.
Bid Johnson
Still use one
Ed Dando
Heather Dando was a champion piklet maker
Rex Thomas
Grandma's is still going strong
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Jeanette Cardwell
And the iron is also waiting to be used.
Caroline Dunlop
That goes back a bit. As well as Mum’s Pikelets, Grandma cooked girdle scones on ours. First an Orion coal range, and later a Wellstood.
Alison Armstrong
Cant beat the flavour either. Yum.
Lyla Al-Alawi
The best...mum could hardly keep us away ....mmmmm
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Lesley Parker Butland
Mum used to cook girdle scones on one of these. They were delicious
Dorothy Wills
I used to cook my pikelets in a fry pan but on a Rayburn wood range, my Mum had a girdle she hung over the open fire, but I never managed to get hold of it, it was a good one too
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West Coast New Zealand History (15th May 2025). Pikelets on the Coal Range Girdle.. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 24th Mar 2026 06:03, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/30826