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Show KITCHEN OF OLDEN TIME 6ize of Room Seems to Have Been of More Importance Than Its Fitments. In olden days the size of the kitchen kitch-en feeina to hv been of more Importance Im-portance than Its fitments In detail. At Hurstmonreaux, for Instance, there was a kitchen 2 feet high, with three huge fireplaces, and a bakehouse with an oven H feet In diameter; then there Is an old Welsh kitchen at Penrhyn Old Hall, near Llandudno, dating from the fifteenth rentury. which has many primitive culinary contrivances, now obsolete or superseded super-seded by more modern devices; a meatjsrk with a flywheel, a atefl toasting stand, and a fan bellows. A wonderful old kitchen Is In Ilattls Abbey, and that at St. Mary's Hall. Coventry, Is remarkable for the famous fa-mous "k.isve's post." to which possibly pos-sibly recalcitrant scullions were temporarily tem-porarily sttscbed. Our ancestors fully recognised the advantsges of having a large kltrben. An order, dated April 19, 1209. commands com-mands Hugh de Nev III to have the king's kitchen st Clarendon roofed with shingles, and to cause two new kitchens to be erected, one at Marlborough Marl-borough and the otler at Ludgershall. to dress the roysl dinners In. "and It Is psrtlruUrly directed thst esrh kltrben shall be provided with a furnace fur-nace sufficiently large to roast two or three oxen." |