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. |
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Speaker: Well, a lot of homes had like what they called a back-kitchen. They move out there. We had- now, some people didn't have a back-kitchen but- So could you describe what that was like? Back-kitchen. Speaker: Well, there was a wood- had to be wood-stove in the back-kitchen, too. It's was (inc) you had of cooking. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
Kept the rest of the house cooler. If you moved to the back-kitchen. But I know everybody didn't have one. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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Um, we had freezer. We had a big freezer, yeah out in the back kitchen at that time but I remember them talking about ah root cellars and-stuff. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
Mo-- mostly us we had just- our dogs were part of the house like, you-know, not that they st-- didn't stay at the house at night but they stayed out in the back kitchen or-whatever. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
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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 you put the wash boiler on out there and then put four, five pails of water, whatever and heated out in- out in the back kitchen. And- and then ah, and your washing machine was inside and m-- and the l-- living part of the house and the ger-- the was generally room, room in there. Sometimes- sometimes not, you washed out in the back kitchen too. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |