Kitchen utensils with family stories to tell | Letters

Guardian readers reflect and reminisce about the cooking equipment that has been significant in their families Among the wedding presents from 1963 that I still use ( Letters, 9 October ) are Denby ovenware, a complete set of Prestige kitchen utensils, a Victorinox paring knife we bought with money given to us for bedsheets, and smoked-glass wine and sherry glasses from a friend of my parents.

When a grandchild noticed that we had rather a lot of flower vases, we had to confess that when asked what we would like as a present, we were so embarrassed that we always said “a flower vase”, knowing that it could come in at any price. It was a vintage year, 1963. Prue Baker Brighton • I inherited my mother’s potato masher, bought just after the war. As a newly married housewife setting up home with everything in short supply and…