i learned today
"on a midsummer's day in a reconstructed eighteenth-century kitchen in Williamsburg, for example, the temperature at teh open hearth while teh major midday meal was being prepared reached 170 degrees, making a brief respite to the far side of the room where the temperature dropped to a mere 90 a delighful refreshment."
"cooking experiments conducted in early December in a reconstructed one-room tenant farmer's house at St. Mary's City revealed that the immediate hearth area where the temperature was 120 degrees was the only part of the room warmer than the outside temperature of 46 degrees"
"cooking experiments conducted in early December in a reconstructed one-room tenant farmer's house at St. Mary's City revealed that the immediate hearth area where the temperature was 120 degrees was the only part of the room warmer than the outside temperature of 46 degrees"