Shopping basket

Before shopping bags most people used baskets to collect food from the market (or eggs from the chicken coop or veggies from the garden).

Via/ Library of Congress

The way we cook is so different than in our grandparents’ time and before. Instead of filled with appliances that processed ingredients, old time kitchens were filled with implements intended to be used on ingredients pulled straight from from the field or dairy, using minimal technology to get the job done.