Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on April 17, 2005 at 21:43:14 from 195.93.21.2 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Mrs. DIXON cooking over open fire posted by Peter H on April 17, 2005 at 21:23:08:
I am sure it wasn't an open fire. The idea of a farmhouse kitchen containing:
(a) a range (which she must have had, in order to bake)
and
(b) an open fire, in addition, does not stand scrutiny. No rational person has two coal fires, two fires to make up, two chimneys to sweep, in one kitchen@
But an old fashioned range had a firebox with doors that could be opened, and this is what Nancy and Peggy were toasting their hoofs before