Frontier Fridays: Requirements of an 1869 Kitchen

Requirements of an 1869 Kitchen

If parent wish their daughters to grow up with good domestic habits, they should have, as one means of securing this result, a neat and cheerful kitchen.

A kitchen should always have, if possible, entirely above ground and well lighted.

A kitchen should have a large sink, and with a drain running underground so that all the premises may be kept sweet and clean.

If flowers and shrubs be cultivated around the kitchen door and window, and the yard near them is well turfed, it will add much to the kitchen's agreeable appearance.

The walls should be clean often and whitewashed to promote a neat look and pure air. The floor of a kitchen should be painted, or where it is better, covered with an oil cloth.

Every good pioneer woman had a apron!