SC - Coldness

[Cynthia Cooper]

> ....... reminded me of the traditional methods in Cornwall for cooling cream 
> (while clotting it).  Put the pan on the stone floor.  Apparently this 
> is where the expression 'stone cold' comes from.  Even up to the 
> fifties fridge-less people were storing milk and fish on a piece of 
> slate in the larder. 

Up to the fifties!!! My sister married into a Cornish farming family 
in the sixties and there was no electricity in the house. (The cow 
shed and other farm buildings had been electrified in the 1930's, but 
that was business.) We made clotted cream every evening and we did not 
need to put the pan on the floor, there were and still are, stone benches 
around the walls. Believe me an unheated house in which the floors, walls, 
and fixtures are all made of granite (I think the roof is slate) is very cold even 
in summer. Nowadays the house has been electrified and the family does 
have a small fridge, but most food is this kept in the "dairy". 

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