Kitchen, Unit: Cooking

Without electricity, gas or running water connected to the cottage, cooking could be very hard work.  Just chopping wood to heat the stove was a big job, before the cooking started!  There was no such thing as a supermarket, packaged meals or 'fast food'.  Everything was made from 'scratch' – bread, cakes, sauces, gravy, puddings, even pies. Does your family make any recipes from scratch? Is it hard?

This photo shows some the different things that you will find in the Blundells' Cottage kitchen. 

Can you pick out the 'mincer' or the 'potato ricer'?  

What else do you see on the kitchen table?

How many did you guess? 

Can you guess what any of these things were used for?

Do you have any of these things in your kitchen?

Do you know what we use instead?