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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
And, of course, we ha-- used to have wood stoves and now everything is electric stove, and there is no more back summer kitchens, um, our- the farm houses used to have large sa-- kitchens at the back- it was attached to the house and they had their wood-stove out there ...
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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They have a great big old brick home I've- they've- it's just beautiful now and ah her husband made a what we call a summer kitchen you-know in them years. He re-did it.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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The one other time Mother- my mother would make tea and biscuits before the game-warden, Ford-Roberts come in to check the fish out in the spring and m-- Mother would invite him in for tea and biscuits in the back-kitchen, in the k-- s-- summer kitchen with Gramp.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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Interviewer: To the summer kitchen? Speaker: There was no summer kitchen. Now, the Wilks family, which would be up by- when I was younger, up by- they
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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They were, ah- we had a lot more fried pork then anything. The winter it was all fried pork. ... Yeah, that's where it hung, out in the back summer kitchen.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
Interviewer: And then would they move the wood stove out in the summer? Into the- Speaker: Ah, there was actually- we didn't move it because there was a stove that stayed in the summer kitchen and one stayed in the (clears throat) in the main house and- but there was ah- Interviewer: So when the weather got warm she'd cook out there in the summer kitchen? Speaker: She- yeah- oh, we just lived in the summer kitchen and that was- you- table went out to the summer kitchen and, ah- ... But every year mother whitewashed the old summer kitchen ...
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
That was- she liked summer kitchen 'cause then she'd have the- the pump in the water. ... Out in the winter she used to melt snow for wash.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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Interviewer: So how did you do your- wash your clothes. That must have been a real- Speaker 2: Big boiler on the kitchen stove there. ... Speaker: And anyway, a lot of the farm women, she had a s-- what they call a- a summer kitchen. Okay, and then- and then in the wintertime, Monday was generally wash day, dependant of course. Anyway if it's wash day, you put a fire on out in the back kitchen and
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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Speaker: This was the main house and this- well this was before- this was the summer kitchens they called it here. ... Interviewer: I see. Now with the summer kitchen, what was that? Speaker: Well they moved out there in the summertime, and moved back into the big house in the wintertime years ago.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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Speaker 2: Okay, I think a lot of- a lot of um families, they had summer kitchens. Speaker: Yes. That's the way they did it. Because there was no way of heating a- a room without making it too hot in the summer. So they had the summer kitchens that they could get their fires going to cook things.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
ExampleMeaning
So most- most of these farmhouses had what, ah- what's called a summer kitchen. And the summer kitchen wasn't as well insulated or it wasn't insulated at all. It was more comfortable in the w-- in the summer because it was cooler, ah, and they made all their meals in the summer kitchen so it wouldn't heat up the main house because it made it more difficult to sleep in the upstairs of course and the heat rises and it was- made- made more sense to have an external building or a building that didn't have- was not- wasn't, ah, transferring as much heat into the- the main- the main house. But I remember our s-- our summer kitchen. Ah, you could see through the walls because the- you-know, they weren't necessarily built to, ah, ah- they were, you-know, they were crude- crude additions to your house. But this- this particular room symbolizes, ah, the- the summer kitchen concept.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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Speaker: Yeah. See there's a little house and then a little kitchen there. Interviewer: Is that the summer kitchen? Speaker: Yeah. ... And a living room and a kitchen in the house here and then the kitchen- summer kitchen here.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
Yeah. And we had- this was a summer kitchen. ... It was just a summer kitchen. We had everything there.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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... at that time it was eighty-five ninety degrees outside. We cooked on- on a cook stove. And we had a summer kitchen. We never cooked in our house in the summertime, we cooked in a sep-- separate building in the summer kitchen.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather
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Right. And the kitchen. You guys had the summer kitchen didn't you? Which is the she-- Like the- where you keep your wood? ... Okay, I think a lot of- a lot of um families, they had summer kitchens.
An extra kitchen, adjoining a house or separate from it, used for cooking in hot weather