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History Of The Kitchen |
If you never seem to get out of! When they bent over a hot stove,
the kitchen as fast as the lady in|it was to warm themselves, not the
a famous TV commercial, don’t des- | food—for - stoves, in that period, |
pair. After all, homemakers have | were used to heat the house and not
been in the kitchen for some 10,000 | to cook the meals.
years—ever since the Stone Age! | During the Middle Ages, some of,
At Aichbuhl in Germany, New| the finest kitchens and best cooks
~ Stone Age farmers lived in rec-| were found in monasteries! The
tangular wooden structures with! kitchens, located in separate build-
only two rooms—but one of them |ings, were equipped for large-scale!
was clearly a kitchen. This area, | cooking, baking and brewing. ‘There
with its hearth and clay oven, was were low arched recesses in the
walled off from the main living | walls where fires could be regulated |
room. more easily than was the case when i
When the ancient Greeks later they burned in the middle of the |
added a second. story ‘to their | floor. Roasting was done on rota- |
houses, the kitchen, oddly enough, | ting spits which had dripping pans
. was usually located on the second | below, and cooking pots hung su-
floor. The Greeks must have had | spended on hooks over the fire. |
a very enthusiastic word for good| Birch plywood paneling is a pop- |
cuisine—for they valued copper | ular feature in today’s kitchens,
cooking pots so highly that they| but early 16th century . French
bestowed them as prizes in Olympic | kitchens make much more extensive
games! use of wood, for the common people
Roman kitchens, as revealed by | ate their meals from wooden plates,
excavations at Pompeii, were usual- cups and bowls. The table at which |
‘ly equipped with a large brazier they sat was often just a crude
on legs; it contained burning char- | plank of wood on a trestle. But]
basin could | the rich had ‘great tables” of!
simmer. In wealthier homes, there | elaborately carved wood, frequently |
“range” of brick or stone' walnut. From the French word banc, |
containing a number of holes. so|for the bench on which the diners |
~ that several dishes could be cooked | sat, we get our word “banquet.”
at once. An ingenious French contribution
In Northern Europe, early house-
to a “banquet” was ‘the pressure |.
wives cooked over a fire built on
| cooker—few people know that the)
the floor in the center of the room. ! first one was invented in 1680! In
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that year, the Frenchman Denis
Papin exhibited a ‘new Digester or
Engine for softening bones” to the
Royal Society of London. Papin and
the members of the Society sat
down to a meal cooked in his “En-
gine—the first pressure-cooked re-
past ever served.”
In colonial America, things were
much more rugged. The kitchen fire-
place was commonly used for cook-
ing until about 1760, when use of
the stove became more prevalent.
Chiefly responsible for this advance.
was Benjamin Franklin, who in 1742
invented the stove which bears his
name. Thé Franklin stove was a
kind of metal fireplace which could
be set inside a regular. open fire-
place to save fuel and give off more
heat.
By the 1800's most American
homes had a large kitchen, the most
important room in the house. It;
served nearly every purpose from
cooking, dining and sitting to laun-
dry, bath and parlor. In the sod
houses . or log cabins, that dotted
the midwestern prairies at that time
the kitchen was at one end of the
single room, with the opposite side
reserved for sleeping. ;
Extensive use of wood—wooden
beams or, in pioneer settlements,
walls made of logs—gave early
American kitchens their rustic
charm.
The kitchen cabinet is such a
standard feature that many people
assume it has been in use for ages.
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West, as an adaptation of the Ger-
man kitchen cupboard.
The kitchen of tomorrow is al-
Would it surprise you to learn that
this was a 20th century improve-
ment—Ilike the electric toaster,
dishwasher and garbage disposal
unit It was first used in the Middle
cook entire meals in seconds by in-
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are just a few of the already-de-!
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in kitchen equipment with-
lin a few years.
With the convenience of today’s
| kitchen, which includes not only |
latest appliances but also the eye
| appeal of wood-paneled walls, cab-
| inets and work areas, many women
| may not even want to ‘get out of
| the kitchen—fast.” Contemporary
| kitchens are pleasant places
| which to linger—while designers
and manufactures keep cooking up
in
In Spring Bulb Beds
Perennial weeds start their spring
growth at about the time hyacinths
and daffodils break through the
ground and are going strong by the
time tulips are ready to bloom. Not
only do they spoil the appearance of
the flower bed, they also rob bulbs
of food and water. Early weeding
will give you a prettier, healthier
garden.
A wuseful tool is a sharp “onion
hoe”, with a blade not more than
' amazed those early housewives who effort. Scatter some complete fer-
they were being ultra-| tilizer on the beds before the findl
thought
{ modern when they prepared meals
“over an open fire.
Perennial Weed Control |Colored Cages For Mice
New, colorful cages for pet mice
or hamsters are
more decorative
than standard cages, making ‘your:
home look less like a’ laboratory.
The design is the same as con-
ventional cages, including exercise
wheel, so your pet may not care
that his home is painted red, pow-
der blue, or soft ‘green.
two inches’ wide. It's handy for
| chopsing up weeds in the narrow.g"
spaces between bulbs. You may®¥
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have to repeat the process a few
| —— | times, but the results dre worth the i
|
| will be even better.
i hoeing, and next season's flowers
new wonders that would have
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