Home Sweet Home by Zachary Chastain

Author:Zachary Chastain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Home Sweet Home: Around the House in the 1800s
ISBN: 9781422296899
Publisher: National Highlights Inc
Published: 2011-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Storing Food

Every home needed a place to keep cold their perishable foods, such as meat, fish, cheeses, and milk. Some wealthy estates in the North and South, where they most attempted to imitate the architecture of Europe, had a separate building called a “larder” or “buttery” for keeping such foods cold. In the South, many of the big plantation houses had a “cook house” in a separate building from the main house. This kept the smells and heat from the cooking separate from the family’s living quarters.

Most nineteenth-century houses, however, had kitchens and pantries inside the main house. Pantries are special rooms for storing food. These rooms and the kitchens were usually built on the north or east sides of a house, or sometimes below ground in the basement, where they would receive the least sunlight and remain as cool as possible. Families who couldn’t afford larders used the darkness of basement cellars to store food. Ice harvesting became popular in the 1800s and many people bought chunks of ice and packed it around their food in the cellar.

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