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Old 20-01-2013, 15:56   #2
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Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

Have you seen this?



You could probably do any sort of cooking on a range that you do on a modern oven provided the temperature was right - and that is a matter of experience. As for what they actually did cook - that would be down to local ideas and traditions.

I cooked for about ten years on a modern wood burning range that also did central heating. No open fire to cook over but a large firebox that had to be topped up constantly (would not be true with coal). And an ash can that had to be emptied - the worst job of all. I well remember using the ash rake on the top of the oven, exactly as described in the film.

Try this also - from the book of the Victorian farm TV series.

Victorian Farm: Christmas Edition - Ruth Goodman - Google Books
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