Some photos 1906 - A model kitchen. Both a hand water pump and faucets. Is that a water heater in the corner? Margaret Ober, singer with the The Metropolitan Opera, in 1914 showing off a roast she's made in her kitchen. 1925 - My grandmother had a stove like this one. 1915 - Too many cooks in the kitchen?
We had the 1925 wall hung sink with drainboard. The sink had three taps, hot, cold and rainwater from a copper-lined cistern in the attic that had been disconnected by the time that I came along. My first kitchen had one of these state of the art stoves with hideaway burner covers, pots & pan storage, and a griddle that sat across two burners. It also had pilot lights that kept the oven warm enough to proof bread dough. I loved that old stove!!!
Nice pictures Nancy, although I think they were probably quite posh for the times. I have a few pictures of old kitchens somewhere ..I'll have to try and find them when I have time..some from the old slum tenements and some from prefabs, and more from palatial style homes from back in the day...
Not a kitchen, an image of hanging laundry in the East Room of the White House. View attachment upload_2018-7-14_6-52-52.gif View attachment upload_2018-7-14_6-53-7.gif
I dread to think what our kitchens looked like back then Nancy - not a pretty sight My foster Mother had 4 boys when I joined them so 7 of us and I was amazed at the 'large' stove she had, plus the huge pans
"During the depression, it was common to eat meat no more than once a week, if at all. Some of the kinds of meals you might expect were: bread and baked beans, breaded tomatoes, buttered noodles, cornbread in buttermilk, creamed eggs on toast, dropped dumplings in broth, fried cornmeal mush, fried egg sandwich, noodles and tomatoes.". .
Looking at the utensils hanging on the wall, I can almost imagine that Teflon was a product reverse engineered from a crashed UFO! .....but it was discovered April 6, 1938.
My mother had one of these when I was a kid. I'm sure it was expensive. Could have been a gift, but she used it a few times to fry chicken, and finally gave up on it, because everything stuck to it, and it was very difficult to clean.
A view of Laura Ingalls Wilder's kitchen at Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield, Missouri. http://oldphotoarchive.com/stories/...rm--visiting-almanzo-and-laura-ingalls-wilder
Yeah, my stepmother bought one and found out they were difficult also until my grandmother taught her how to season it like a cast iron skillet and bingo, no sticking and some great food!
At least the kitchen in the picture from 1925 was spacious, with plenty of windows and the ceiling high enough to keep it from being overly warm. And, I do note the radiant heater under the sink which helped keep things warm when the oven wasn’t being used. Great design! I wish ours was that nice!