[Cinnamon Girl]

If your mom was using the skillets, they must already be seasoned, otherwise they'd be all rusty. Are you wondering how to keep them? I have an iron skillet and in order to keep it seasoned, after I fry stuff in it, I rinse it in cold water to get the food out, but not the oil, then wipe it with a paper towel and keep it in the cabinet on a paper towel so it doesn't get dusty.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Oh, I'm sorry about that. I read the first line of your post wrong and thought they were your mom's skillets. Sorry about that. Gourmet magazine gives a recipe for seasoning similar to one above. Oil the skillet all over then bake at low temp. for a couple hours to develop a tacky grease coating.