The kitchen is always my favourite room in any old house - probably because I enjoy cooking and baking. I always feel at home there. This one was no exception and I love that blue they used (we have a slightly lighter shade of this in our bedroom now). Few words are needed and indeed, I am chasing my tail as we have unexpected guests coming this afternoon and the domestic economy has been scarcely touched in the last 10 days as I've not really been here long enough to dust and tidy!
What a lovely collection of kitchen equipment they have. Love the huge dresser
ReplyDeleteI agree Sue. Especially that Marmalade Slicer. I bet that dresser took some shifting!
DeleteAll looks so welcoming and homely that it makes one almost forget the hard work of the scullery maids and the like.
ReplyDeleteHOmely is the word Pat. I feel a bit like a scullery maid today as I am shooting round like one of those blue ***** flies we hear about!
DeleteWhat a wonderful kitchen I just love it. Although we live in a modernish place I still love old fashioned kitchenware/vintage kitchenalia, if/when we move I am going to expand on this, I only have room for a small kitchenette with all my kitchenalia in at the moment.
ReplyDeleteIt has a lot of character. If you like that kitchen you would probably like mine, which is wonderfully old-fashioned too (beams, an inglenook and a stove that looks the part.) I am sure you enjoy your kitchenalia even though you can't expand to a huge kitchen like Scolton's.
DeleteOoooo I LOVE old kitchens and pantrys.
ReplyDeleteMe too,. Well, I seem to remember you have a nice sunken pantry where you are now?
DeleteAh thank you, yes I'm lucky.x
DeleteWhat a wonderful kitchen - a part of a house I always enjoy visiting too :)
ReplyDeleteI think they had done it well. I always wished they had done a kitchen out at Newton House when I volunteered there - but we had to be satisfied with the Butler's Room and the Boot Room instead.
DeleteI also enjoyed that tour round the kitchen. Like the fact they had real food on show too.
ReplyDeleteYes, the squashes and things were grown in the walled garden there, and offered for sale in the shop.
DeleteI loved the Weavers comment here, of "the hard work of the scullery maids and the like." These old kitchens saw a lot of that, for sure. But, this is a lovely old kitchen, one of the best I have seen.
ReplyDeleteIt's very nicely done I have to say. The "real vegetables" make a difference. I felt I wanted to just go in and start cooking some soup!
DeleteI love this kitchen! I have an old porcelain 'pudding' mould with a raised rose at the bottom. What sort of pudding was made in this type of mould?
ReplyDeleteJelly, blancmange, that sort of thing Mundi. Blancmange is very out of fashion these days but when I was a kid we had it as a school pudding, and mum would make one up for Sunday tea. How pretty to have a rose on the top when you turn it out . . .
DeleteLovely kitchen. Like you that is where I feel most at home. Other than sitting on my recliner and knitting in the evenings the kitchen is where I spend most of my time.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.