468 On the Construction of Kitchen 



ately above the mantel of the chimney fire-place, which 

 reaches nearly to the ceiling of the room, serves to 

 shut up a small closet with narrow shelves, which has 

 no connection with culinary affairs, but is used for 

 putting away candlesticks, and any other small articles 

 used in housekeeping, which are occasionally laid by 

 when not in actual use. The two other panelled doors 

 by the side of it serve, the one (that on the right 

 hand) for concealing the roaster, and the other for 

 concealing the family boiler. 



The two (shorter) panelled doors, on the right and 

 left of the open chimney fire-place, and on the same 

 level with it, serve for concealing the fire-place doors 

 and ash-pit doors of the closed fire-places of the roaster 

 and of the boiler. 



The steam from the boiler (after passing through the 

 steam-dishes, when they are used) is carried off by a 

 tin tube into a small canal, which conveys it into the 

 chimney in such a manner that no part of it comes 

 into the room. The steam from the roaster is carried 

 off in like manner by its steam-tube. 



If a void space, about 2 or 3 inches in depth, be left 

 between the outside of the door of the roaster and the 

 inside of the panelled door which shuts it up and con- 

 ceals it, and if this panelled door be lined on the inside 

 with thin sheet iron, the process of roasting may be 

 carried on with perfect safety with this door shut. And 

 if similar precautions be used to defend the other pan- 

 elled doors from the heat, they may also be kept shut 

 while the processes of boiling and roasting are actually 

 going on. 



By these means it would be possible to prepare a 

 dinner for a large company in a room where there should 



