Kitchen - Inside The Vintage Pantry
by Nina Prommer
Title
Kitchen - Inside The Vintage Pantry
Artist
Nina Prommer
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Photograph - Photo
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Kitchen - Inside The Vintage Pantry by Nina Prommer
In a late medieval hall, there were separate rooms for the various service functions and food storage. The pantry was where bread was kept, also food prepared. The head of the office responsible for this room was referred to as a pantler. There were similar rooms for storage of bacon and other meats (larder), alcoholic beverages (buttery) known for the "butts" of barrels stored there, and cooking (kitchen).
By the Victorian era, large houses and estates in Britain maintained the use of separate rooms, each one dedicated to a distinct stage of food preparation and cleanup. The kitchen was for cooking and food storage was done in a storeroom. Food preparation before cooking was done in a larder, and dishwashing was done in a scullery or pantry, "depending on the type of dish and level of dirt". Since the scullery was the room with running water, it had a sink, and it was where the messiest food preparation took place, such as cleaning fish and cutting raw meat. The pantry was where tableware was stored, such as china, glassware and silverware. If the pantry had a sink for washing tableware, it was a wooden sink lined with lead, to prevent chipping the china and glassware while they were washed. In some middle-class houses, the larder, pantry and storeroom might simply be large wooden cupboards, each with its exclusive purpose.
In America, pantries evolved from early Colonial American "butteries", built in a cold north corner of a Colonial home, into a variety of pantries in self-sufficient farmsteads. Butler's pantries, or china pantries, were built between the dining room and kitchen of a middle class English or American home, especially in the latter part of the 19th into the early 20th centuries. Great estates, such as Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina or Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, Ohio had large warrens of pantries and other domestic "offices", echoing their British 'Great House' counterparts.
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group's I IS FOR INSIDE themed week JANUARY 27- FEBRUARY 3. You are invited to add this wonderful art to the Features Archive Discussion in the ABC GROUP.
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Karen Cook
I love this! What a tribute to the kitchen, and all of those canned goodies we can't live without! Such a neat and tidy cupboard! Love your treatment of this. Off to the discussion threads in ABC group with this!