April, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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below. Among the cooking 

 utensils his inventory describes 

 "tin ware to bake sugar cakes'' 

 and "a marsepyn pan." I he 

 latter refers to the sweet con- 

 fection made of almond paste 

 and sugar in a variety of 

 forms, known as marzipan, or 

 marchpane, an old European 

 sweetmeat, and a particular 

 favorite in Germany at Christ- 

 mas. The "marchpane pan" 

 frequently occurs in the Dutch 

 inventories, which also men- 

 tion apple-roasters, chocolate- 

 pots, cake and pie pans, sugar- 

 cake pans, posset-pans, strain- 

 ers, kettles, fish-kettles, skillets, 

 numerous kinds of pans, spits, 

 jacks, pots, funnels, colanders, 

 spice-boxes, steel to strike fire 

 with and tinder-box, candle- 

 box, rack, kettle -bench, 

 "boards to whet knives upon," 

 spoon-rack, sand-box, tobacco- 

 box, "thing to put spoons in," 

 hour-glass, weather glass, roll- 

 ing board for linen, foot- 

 warmers, and all kinds of 

 measures. 



It may be interesting to learn of what the kitchen 

 furniture of Captain Kidd consisted. The famous (and 

 newly married) pirate lived, in 1692, on what is now 

 Nassau Street, in New York. His house was 

 luxuriously furnished. His kitchen contained 

 three pewter tankards, four kettles, three chaf- 

 ing-dishes, two iron pots, one skillet, one spit, 

 one jack, one gridiron, three pairs fire irons, 

 one flesh fork, one brass skimmer, one brass 

 pestle and iron mortar, five pewter basins, two 

 and a half dozen pewter plates, thirteen pewter 

 dishes, three box smoothing irons, and five leather 

 buckets. In the cellar were three barrels of cider 

 and one pipe and a half of Madeira wine. 



The house of the prosperous merchant in New York 

 generally consisted of two stories containing seven or 

 eight rooms. Sometimes the kitchen was in the base- 

 ment, sometimes it was at the back of the house, and 

 sometimes it was in a separate building, and over it 

 were the servants' rooms. This is made perfectly 

 clear by the advertisements of houses for sale. For 

 instance, in 1754, a dwelling-house on Pearl Street 

 two stories high and has two rooms on a floor with a 

 kitchen back." Another in the same year is built of 

 brick and stone, had three rooms on a floor, seven fire- 

 places, and "a good kitchen." In 1761, Mr. 1 homas 

 Duncan's house "in the Broad-Way" is two rooms 

 deep and has "a good cellar and a cellar kitchen 

 underneath." 



Another arrangement occurs in the house of Peter 

 Jacob Marius, a Dutch merchant who lived on Pearl 

 Street. He added a large kitchen to the side of the 

 house in 1700, with cellars below and rooms for the 

 servants above. 



Mr. Abraham Lodge, a lawyer, had, in 1750, a two 

 story brick house with basement. I he dining-room was on 

 the first floor, and was handsomely furnished with mahogany 

 and blue china. The kitchen was in the basement, in the 

 front, while the cellar, wine cellar, and general storeroom 



were in the back of the basement. The house that 

 de Peyster built in 1695 in Pearl Street had the 

 a two-story extension, appropriated to the neg 

 Kitchens are often mentioned in ad\'ertisements. 



Abraham 

 kitchen in 

 ro slaves. 

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