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  • Collection: Keeping Room

Precursor to modern colanders. This one is 9 1/2 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches tall.

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Fully functional cast iron wooden cook stove.

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Wooden Hammer used in bakeing

Similar to modern day dough cutters.

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Made of pine. It is primitive with one shelf and two doors. It has an old latch but more recent hinges.

Thick walled cooking pot with tight lid. This one is 4 1/2 inches tall and 12 1/2 inches wide.

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Made in Pennsylvania. Meat was stored in these and covered with lard. This was an early form of refrigeration as this was one means of keeping meat even though it frequently spoiled. This was the forerunner of the gray stoneware crock. The red clay…

Made of metal.

Sometimes called "down the hearth" because the temperature of the contents could be controlled. Was made of cast iron.
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