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summer kitchen

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1874, OED Evaluation: North American

An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather

ExampleMeaning
Then there was a summer kitchen put up ... It was lined up that it became a, ah- a winter kitchen as well as the summer kitchen.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: The- now the kitchen would be where you'd cook and where you'd eat as well? Speaker: Yes, where- right away- and the- a few years after they built, ah, another wing to it and then made a summer kitchen. Interviewer: Yes. That would be joined onto the house? Speaker: Yes. But the most, ah- the most, ah, people at that time had, ah- had a summer kitchen either built right beside the house and had a runway (?) between the two or, ah- or had it hitched onto the house. They- th-- they moved the stove out of the main house in the summer. ... Kept the house warm.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Did you have a separate, um, room off the kitchen? The main kitchen? ... Off the main kitchen- the kitchen- the big kitchen you'd mainly, um, cook and the family would all eat in that one, eh? They would- Speaker: Well, ah, this part of the house here, there was a- a double window. Two windows together in the front. ... And there was a living room and a dining room and then a kitchen that had- Interviewer: I thought it was a parlour? Speaker: That had been- years ago it was a- what they used to call a- a summer kitchen.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Um what about the um- the room that you cooked in? Speaker: Kitchen. Interviewer: You didn't have one- in a hot day, did you use it? What did you do on a hot day? Speaker: No, we had a- a log building out there. And a platform between the house and it. And that was what we called a summer kitchen. ... Had a stove out there and then hot time in the summer the cooking was done out there. And if it wasn't too hot we eat out there. And if it was hot, like this kind of weather, we'd bring it in, eat in here.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Um, some people had um a room a-- out back of their kitchen that they um sometimes would cook in in the summer if it was very hot. ... What did they call that? Speaker: That's the summer-kitchen and the back-kitchen. Yeah. And then some people had a house outside too, and they called it the milkhouse. And it was made of stone and they used to keep their milk and butter and-stuff in there.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
But th-- I use the one at the back door here, where I built that veranda. There was a- a summer-kitchen or a back-kitchen, and then you went out and went down a few steps and the roof went ahead out you-see.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Ever move your stove in the summertime? Speaker: No, we- we uh- we never had a summer kitchen. ... We just had the one kitchen.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Mm-hm. What else was in your kitchen besides the stove? Speaker: The summer kitchen? Interviewer: No th- the main kitchen.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
The wash day. ... possibly one day she would do the white clothes and uh, she would always soak them out on the back uh, there's a little veranda, just uh, on the back of the summer kitchen which led into the cellar there.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
The garden was just in front of the um, wood-shed which was just beside the summer kitchen.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
... she would put that under the table, right in the centre under the table to keep the mosquitoes away. You couldn't eat supper at all in the summer kitchen without this smudge under the table and the smoke would- would come up from under the table but it didn't bother us at all we ate on-
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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And then there was a back porch on it that they used- They used to call 'em summer kitchens.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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The house is still there ... And they have added some additions. but we had a summer-kitchen and my father had bees and we used to ride the ex- in the extractor to…
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
So he goes to the house and it's an old log house with a summer kitchen on the side wood, eh? Like another addition thing.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
Boards on the floor, eh? Everything else is all earth floor. The boards are here to keep you out of the mud in the k-- in the summer kitchen. The door swung in, there's a lady cooking right here on a Findlay oval stove.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
... this garage is different now than what it was then but at that time it was a summer kitchen and wood shed and a cow stuck her head out the doorway and what happened was, there used to be an apple tree that was on the opposite side of the fence, so she came over to eat apples and there could've been a bushel of apples in the summer kitchen so she walked in-
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So is that- is that like a summer kitchen? Speaker: Summer kitchen, call it a cookhouse. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Speaker: There was an old door.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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Interviewer: ... you've mentioned your grand-parents a couple of times, do you remember them from when you were a little girl? Speaker: They lived in half of the house, we just, grew up, they were there. They were just part of us. ... They had their own kitchen and dining room, and win-- winter-kitchen, summer-kitchen.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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Ah, with farm vacations and she did that for a quite a few years and she- my sister-in-law, ah, her and my brother, um had fixed up the summer kitchen, the back part of the farm house- ... And they- they made it an apartment and they lived there.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
They raised purebred Ayrshire cattle. And the piggery, they- they milked the cows and brought the milk up into the summer kitchen where they would separate it ...
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather