Posted by Alan Hakim on April 17, 2005 at 22:25:03 from 212.137.247.60 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Mrs. DIXON cooking over open fire posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on April 17, 2005 at 21:43:14:
The typical kitchen range, such as we had in Wales when I was young, had an open fire beside the oven (which had a door). The fire heated the oven, but you wouldn't use that for frying: it would burn the handle of the frying pan.