Posted by Robert Dilley on April 30, 2001 at 20:58:37 from 216.211.68.40:
In Reply to: LARDER or PANTRY (what about Scullery?) posted by Colin Havard on April 30, 2001 at 19:36:19:
I suspect scullery (originally from the Latin for a small dish) is what in the North we called back kitchen (from an earlier thread). The etymologies of larder and pantry have been explained already. It appears that people who have only one room/large cupboard for food/kitchenware storage make their own choice of what to call it; those who have both use larder for the cooler room used for butter, milk, meat etc in place of a refrigerator. Incidentally, one of my dictionaries defines larder fridge as "a refrigerator with no freezer compartment". That is a new one to me, though we had such a fridge here in Canada until a few years ago -- it was sold as an "All Refrigerator".