Posted by Elizabeth on December 05, 2006 at 05:00:52 from 71.236.185.241 user Elizabeth.
In Reply to: Re: cooking in Mrs. Dixon's kitchen posted by PeterH on December 04, 2006 at 22:16:51:
But Mrs. Dixon had an oven--remember that she was known in the district for her poprk pies?--so it seems likely she had a stovetop attached in some way to the oven.
I picture it much the way Ed describes, cast iron with a fire box. Burners which could be opened for that higher heat to sear the bacon, and an oven which was merely another box off one side of the firebox. I have an old one in my basement right now, sadly not hooked up for use.
Perhaps AR was describing Mrs. Dixon holding the pan over the open burner, with flames coming up out of it. She may have been finishing the bacon off by lifting it a bit higher above the flames to avoid burning it at the end. Perhaps the pan had been sitting tamely on the burner until jsut before the children appeared!