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The kitchen / Bobbie Kalman.

by Kalman, Bobbie.

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Crabtree Publishing Company, c2020.

Kitchens -- United States -- Juvenile literature.

Cooking -- United States -- Juvenile literature.

Manners and customs -- Juvenile literature.

Frontier and pioneer life -- Juvenile literature.

United States -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.

Kalman, Bobbie. Historic communities.

9780778773184 (hc)

9780778773504 (sc)

[Newly revised edition].

32 pages ; color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Includes index.

Picturing the past -- Early kitchens -- Changes over time -- Keeping the fire lit -- Cooking over the fire -- Wood and iron kitchen utensils -- Above the flames -- Ovens and stoves -- Finding food -- Bread! -- Making butter -- Preserving food -- kitchen facts.

This newly revised edition describes how the kitchen was the center of family activity in the old days. Here families ate their meals, played games, and told stories with only the fireplace and a few candles for warmth and light. In The Kitchen, young readers will take a close look at the early fireplace and the tools and utensils surrounding it. Domestic chores carried out in the kitchen are described including : baking bread, making butter, preserving food and washing clothes.

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