Help me figure out this cursive word on a family recipe
Hi, I'm digitizing some family recipes and came across a word I couldn't make out. I think it's Durisim but couldn't find anything related to a clothespin that resembles this word. Does anyone know what word it is?
by Themasterminder
27 Comments
Thargomindah2
I get division
SinceDirtWasNew
I think it’s division.
Pavlova-Princess
Could it be dualism misspelled?
HamRadio_73
Your correct on durisim and I can’t find anything either.
nonchalantly_weird
It should have been division. The old peg style clothespins were separated in the middle.
ganachetruffles
Might it be “division” in the clothespins?
WoodwifeGreen
I third division.
Deemon1211
I agree division but want to say it’s beautiful handwriting❣️
Weird-Dragonfly-5315
The word is clearly written as “durisim” but that isn’t any part of a clothes pin that I can find. So it was misheard or miswritten. From context it seems it means the middle which for the plain wood pins is at the point they divide in two legs. So I agree with the person who suggested division – I suspect the writer meant to, or tried to, write “division”.
Arch_of_MadMuseums
Google old clothes pins or it won’t make sense
NSCButNotThatNSC
As many others said, it’s division.
Bac7
It’s division. Clothespins used to look more like a dowel than what we see today. One end had a ball to hold it, then the dowel had a cut in it that divided the clothespin (about 2/3 of it was split, 1/3 was solid), then the end you slid the clothes into were notched, kind if like duck lips. It’s hard to describe, but basically she’s saying wrap the dough around a dowell style clothespin at the division in the clothespin.
waving-snail83
I think they are talking about the opening on an old fashioned clothes pin, so I agree that it’s probably devision and was just misspelled. You take the dough strips and wrap them around the clothespins. I would make sure the wood is seasoned, or just wrap them in aluminum before you wrap the dough on them. Then wrap from top to bottom to make a tube, like a cannoncini. Would love to see these after you bake them☺️
SF_ARMY_2020
A clothespin’s parts are the **prongs**, which grip the clothes, and the **spring** or **fulcrum**, which holds the prongs together and creates the clamping action. The term “durisim” appears to be a misspelling or misinterpretation of “clothespin,” which is the correct term for this device. The classic wooden design involves two prongs connected by a metal spring that acts as both the fulcrum and the spring, as described on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothespin).
laffnlemming
Nine inch clothes pins probably didn’t have metal. It was all one wood police, like a dowel that had a groove cut out.
Dangerous_Lettuce869
Looks to me like….
Clothespin Crullers
Beat 4 eggs until light add ⅔ cup sugar ½ cup melted shortening ⅓ cup milk
Sift 3½ cups bread flour with 1½ teaspoon soda ½ teaspoon cream of tartar ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Add to first mixture.
Roll dough ¼ inch thick and cut in strips 9 inches long and ½ inch wide. Wrap strips around nine inch clothespins starting just above the division in the clothespins. Slip the end of dough between the two tips of the pin. Lay in fat 375 degrees. Drain on brown paper.
Take out clothespins and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Immerse clothespins first in hot fat so dough will not stick.
Out of Alasha’s Kitchen.
msanthropedoglady
It’s division.
MinimumPreparation95
That means to do it just above the hard part
Select-Pie6558
Looks a lot like my grandma’s handwriting. Leftie born in 1920.
Tgande1969
Wrap around wooden trowels.
grammarly_err
I know everyone is saying it’s supposed to say division, but all I see is “durisim.”
mel_cache
It’s “division,” as in the place where the top of a (non-hinged) clothespin becomes two legs.
chaz_Mac_z
It was nine strips of dough for nine, one-inch diameter clothes pins, wrapped at the point where the pins divided. That’s what I see, anyway.
27 Comments
I get division
I think it’s division.
Could it be dualism misspelled?
Your correct on durisim and I can’t find anything either.
It should have been division. The old peg style clothespins were separated in the middle.
Might it be “division” in the clothespins?
I third division.
I agree division but want to say it’s beautiful handwriting❣️
The word is clearly written as “durisim” but that isn’t any part of a clothes pin that I can find. So it was misheard or miswritten. From context it seems it means the middle which for the plain wood pins is at the point they divide in two legs. So I agree with the person who suggested division – I suspect the writer meant to, or tried to, write “division”.
Google old clothes pins or it won’t make sense
As many others said, it’s division.
It’s division. Clothespins used to look more like a dowel than what we see today. One end had a ball to hold it, then the dowel had a cut in it that divided the clothespin (about 2/3 of it was split, 1/3 was solid), then the end you slid the clothes into were notched, kind if like duck lips. It’s hard to describe, but basically she’s saying wrap the dough around a dowell style clothespin at the division in the clothespin.
I think they are talking about the opening on an old fashioned clothes pin, so I agree that it’s probably devision and was just misspelled. You take the dough strips and wrap them around the clothespins. I would make sure the wood is seasoned, or just wrap them in aluminum before you wrap the dough on them. Then wrap from top to bottom to make a tube, like a cannoncini. Would love to see these after you bake them☺️
A clothespin’s parts are the **prongs**, which grip the clothes, and the **spring** or **fulcrum**, which holds the prongs together and creates the clamping action. The term “durisim” appears to be a misspelling or misinterpretation of “clothespin,” which is the correct term for this device. The classic wooden design involves two prongs connected by a metal spring that acts as both the fulcrum and the spring, as described on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothespin).
Nine inch clothes pins probably didn’t have metal. It was all one wood police, like a dowel that had a groove cut out.
Looks to me like….
Clothespin Crullers
Beat
4 eggs until light
add
⅔ cup sugar
½ cup melted shortening
⅓ cup milk
Sift
3½ cups bread flour with
1½ teaspoon soda
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Add to first mixture.
Roll dough ¼ inch thick and cut in strips 9 inches long and ½ inch wide. Wrap strips around nine inch clothespins starting just above the division in the clothespins. Slip the end of dough between the two tips of the pin. Lay in fat 375 degrees. Drain on brown paper.
Take out clothespins and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Immerse clothespins first in hot fat so dough will not stick.
Out of Alasha’s Kitchen.
It’s division.
That means to do it just above the hard part
Looks a lot like my grandma’s handwriting. Leftie born in 1920.
Wrap around wooden trowels.
I know everyone is saying it’s supposed to say division, but all I see is “durisim.”
It’s “division,” as in the place where the top of a (non-hinged) clothespin becomes two legs.
It was nine strips of dough for nine, one-inch diameter clothes pins, wrapped at the point where the pins divided. That’s what I see, anyway.
division!
Division.
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division