[Sca-cooks] ELIZABETHAN KITCHEN

[ED Reese]

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Well, going into the buildings they built then, and looking at the
furniture -- yes, people were a foot to two feet smaller then, especially
the women.

Esther


At 09:27 AM 4/22/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>Phillipa wrote:
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>>At this link:
>>http://www.myladyswardrobe.com/
>>is a picture (the one on the right) of an Elizabethan kitchen. It is
>>on the manor estate of Kentwell in England where they do a very
>>exacting recreation of Elizabethan times for 3 weeks in the summer.
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>The table at which they are working seems too low for comfort. Maybe
>it's an eating-height table being used as a work table? Or an
>original-height table with modern-height people? (Although I wouldn't
>have thought people were that much taller now.)
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>I once saw the kitchen at Haddon Hall; here is the picture off their website.
>http://www.haddonhall.co.uk/html/Kitchen.html
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>Elizabeth of Dendermonde/Betty Cook
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