Applied to a part of a house or building which lies behind, and is usually subsidiary to the front or main part bearing the name, as back-building, a building behind forming an appendage to a main building, back-chamber, back-court, back-drawing-room, back-garden (also transf. and fig.), back-kitchen, back-parlour, back porch, back shed, etc.
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Speaker: Oh, no, we- we had a back kitchen. Yes. Speaker: If you know what that is. Right next to the back kitchen we had- You had- Speaker: All summer but we moved when winter came. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
Mm-hm. Um, you used to- you had to move your stove out to the- the back kitchen for the summer then? Speaker: No, we had- we had a stove in both places. Did you? Speaker: Mm-hm. Now these- Speaker: We had a stove out in the back kitchen to cook in. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
Speaker: We depended on using the first part of the house and then, ah, for- we had the back kitchen. Mm-hm. Speaker: And the back kitchen is where I liked to spend all my time. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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Interviewer: 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. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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But we were- we had ice for- as long as I can remember we used to have an icebox out in the back kitchen and you had to have a drain that you could drain it outside somehow because the ice would melt and- |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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I said "Somebody's going to get hurt." "Oh no, don't worry about it, they can do it." (laughs) Five minutes, not even five minutes, somebody comes running through the back kitchen to the- 'cause the kitchen lead to the back of the- back of the store where there was a door you could go to the ba-- parking-lot. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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They- they- they had a policeman that ah boarded with him before and he had a- the little back kitchen I-guess that we'd call it. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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That usually was either the um the winter- or the spring kitchen or the whatever-it-is because the- sometimes it would be hotter they- they would cook in different parts of it because it would cooler to cook in certain parts. They'd have the back kitchen. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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But he- he'd a dill-- or, back kitchen about the size of this thing here and he'd- lined with crocks. And he- dandelion wine and rhubarb wine and beet wine. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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Ah, but in the summertime we always ate in the back kitchen and it didn't have a screen door on it. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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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. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |