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Summer Kitchen 101
In 1840s Virginia, the summer kitchen was more than a separate cooking space—it was the heartbeat of the farm. Tucked beside garden rows and shaded by walnut trees, this brick outbuilding held the…
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Smokehouse / Meat Curing House 101
Usually short walk from the barn stood the smokehouse—a log-walled, clay-chinked chamber where meat was salted, smoked, and saved one ham at a time.
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