In smaller household’s wooden kitchen dressers often fulfilled the job of the pantry and meat safes or ice boxes were used for foods which needed a […]
The ‘dry’ larder was more like today’s larder or pantry, this was where the grain, dried fruits, cooked pastries, dried meats and even some types of […]
Storing food in fat is virtually unheard of these days but this method of food preservation is actually the origin of the of the word larder. We tend to […]
Managed coppice woodlands were once the source of a vast number of materials needed for everyday life. The wood produced from them was used for tools, […]