Floor 1, Kitchen extensions rooms

 The Preservation Room

A worker stays in this tiny room of the kitchen to can in glass jars all kinds of fruits and vegetables. This process is done all summer with squash and pumpkin in Autumn. The foods from this room are usually consumed in winter months. Jams, peaches, sandwich spreads, herbs, nuts and seeds, and even sugared fish line the wood shelves and there is a tiny work table.

The Salting Room

This twin room to the preserving room is where beef, fish, and vegetables are dried, salted, and placed into containers for winter. Pork hock is famous here, even zucchini, carrots, and potatoes are made into thin salty crisps for a snack. Chocolate is ground here for hot cocoa, most spices created, including herbs, teas, coffee, and plants from the veranda. This room must be cared for continuously by the exterminator to avoid aphids and other insects from spoiling the goods.

The Butcher's Cold Room

It's not necessarily that cold like a refrigerator, it's the mud in the hole that makes it a bit chilly. Carcasses hang from the ceiling and whatever needs to stay cooled like fish or seafood goes into the hole. This room has to be protected from rats, mice, and bugs. On extremely hot summer days this room is useless, but in colder months like the Fall, Winter, and Spring it's ideal for use.

Return to the kitchen, (turn to ) or if you've already seen everything you may now go to Floor 2, (turn to ) .