…and finally…
We were out late tonight, so I shall fob you off with one last picture of our inglenook: the old bread oven.
It’s in the upper right corner of the inglenook. One of these days, I’ll have to put a camera on a pole and get some proper pics of the interior. You can’t quite make it out, but it’s a sort of beehive shape on the inside.
The way it worked, you’d shovel hot coals in to warm it up, then brush them to the sides and put your loaves in middle and shut the door until they baked. I see no evidence of hinges, so the door was probably just a wooden shutter sort of thing.
Note the bottom right bricks have crumbled away, we suspect where the wooden paddle (called a peel) was inserted to move the loaves.
Thus ends a week of sperging about my inglenook. Good weekend, all!
September 28, 2018 — 9:33 pm
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