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The Kitchen
The kitchen of the first manor house was built separately from the main house and some hundred years later a new kitchen was attached to
the house. It probably had a high ceiling and a lantern tower with windows at the top to let smoke and steam out, suggested by
the stones found by archaeologists which would have supported the wooden posts of the tower.
A semi-circular oven was found built into the back wall of the kitchen. Ovens were used to bake bread and pastry and to roast meat.
An open fire would have been used for cooking stews and roasting meat.
You can take a look at the kitchen table, see an open fire,
inspect some of the pots and cooking equipment or the
quern used to grind grain into flour.
You can also move elsewhere within the manor house:
go further on through the kitchen, see a kitchen oven, go back to the manor courtyard
or see a video clip of kitchen.
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