You may have already discovered at least something about kitchen gardens on your explorations in and around Frugality Cottage.
You may already have informed yourself substantially about the cottage and cookery.
Most of the garden of Frugality Cottage is a forest garden.
Near each of the three kitchens are container gardens of herbs, seasonal vegetables, salad greens and soft fruits.
You may be wondering why there are three kitchens
in Frugality Cottage.
Even in ordinary households, each cook requires a
kitchen. When there are too many cooks in one kitchen, the broths, the stews and the casseroles tend to be ruined.
That is simple economics.
All three kitchens here are used for the preparation of organic food. The gardens around the cottage are entirely organic, too.
One of the kitchens is mainly used for processing ingredients and storing foods in the longer term. There is a food dehydrator in there, and many full - and empty - storage jars.
The food preservation kitchen contains a large collection of cookery books, including information on traditional foods.
The second kitchen is known as the soup kitchen, for various reasons. Many different types of soups, stews and similar foods are prepared there.
What do you know about soup kitchens in terms of history and economics?
The third kitchen here is used mainly for experiments and improvisations.
Experimental cooking is usually associated with adequate affluence. The
truly poor cannot afford for cooking experiments to go wrong in
unpleasant ways though, like everyone else, they may delight in enjoying the fruits of happy accidents.
What have you been learning in the kitchens here and the activities within them?
What do you already know about the productivity within the cottage kitchens?
The Cottage and Cookery - Part One
The Cottage and Cookery - Part Two
The Cottage and Cookery - Part Three
The Cottage and Cookery - Part Four