Pantry
A pantry (also reservoir chamber , -space or meat ) is one in which a small space food and dishes are kept. Shelves or shelves are used for storage and boxes, chip baskets , stoneware for vegetables , fruit , lard and butter , preserves , bottles with milk, fruit juices, eggs, bread , dried mushrooms and much more are used to protect against pests . In the past, smoked goods such as ham, sausage, bacon or game were hung on the ceiling of the chamber in order to keep meat and sausage under good conditions on the one hand, and to make it more difficult for pests such as mice and rats to gain access on the other .
A pantry can be walk-in and even contain a work table or just some kind of larger closet in the kitchen . Nowadays, larders are almost always dispensed with in new buildings in Western Europe because perishable food is now mainly stored in refrigerators and freezers .
Construction or location in the building
Pantries need good ventilation . Buildings from the Wilhelminian era with higher storeys often had pantries with small high windows to make use of the space for shelves, or a connection to a ventilation duct . Such pantries are significantly cooler in summer than rooms with large windows and, depending on the structure of the building, heat up with a delay. Ideally, the pantry faces north, otherwise it should be kept as dark as possible and ventilated at night so that the temperature is as constant as possible and the supplies do not spoil prematurely. It must be kept clean, so the floor should be tiled or lined with linoleum if possible.
On the ground floor, like in an earth cellar , such chambers can have direct contact with the ground, the floor of which consists of ungrounded stones in order to ensure that the moisture from the earth can enter the room air. This extracts heat from the ground when it evaporates and thus serves for cooling.
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- ^ Antonie Steimann, The Efficient Housewife , Süddeutsches Verlags-Institut Stuttgart, 1913, p. 18