Many people used to keep the tins for decoration or repurpose them. Tins work well since the pins and needles cannot poke through the sides.
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The tins were quite air-tight to keep cookies fresh as opposed to the bagged cookies of the day. This tight lid helps ensure the sharp sewing supplies never fell out.
Most cookie recipes I've seen require large amounts of butter. Think of them as sugar cookies only instead of all that unhealthy sugar, you added more unhealthy butter. Oh and kinda hard too. Butter cookies in these tins have a crunch without being overcooked.
A question to any of the experts out there: As suggested in this episode of King of the Hill, is there a correlation to children being visually stimulated by red, black, and white more than other colors as suggested by OP’s data points?
Before anyone says it, NO, I do not get my medical advise from a cartoon (or Reddit for that matter). I have seen this color combination in a small handful of shows in the past.
My local store just started selling these large sewing kits
caniborrow50cents OP t1_itcwel0 wrote
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Many people used to keep the tins for decoration or repurpose them. Tins work well since the pins and needles cannot poke through the sides.
edited to add:
The tins were quite air-tight to keep cookies fresh as opposed to the bagged cookies of the day. This tight lid helps ensure the sharp sewing supplies never fell out.