I brought something back for all of you from our ski holidays...
One afternoon we went to vistit the castle of Gruyere:
Castle of Gruy?res (official home-page) - Welcome
Built inside the walls of the castle there's a vaulted room, which used to be the kitchen. And inside the walls of the kitchen there's an old brick oven, where they used to bake bread...
My family got a little bit pissed off when I insisted on going back to look at it a third time, and used up the batteries of the camera taking tons of pictures. But seeing such an old oven, so similar to ours... its really COOL!
The floor seemed to be of redish bricks, the first course of the dome was out of large chunks of stone, like the walls of the castle, and the following courses were more red bricks, smaller and narrower than on our ovens, which were at one time covered with a layer of clay (?). No idea what they did for insulation... The oven floor is about 1.5 m in dameter, and the dome is quite low, the top closes in really steeply.
One afternoon we went to vistit the castle of Gruyere:
Castle of Gruy?res (official home-page) - Welcome
Built inside the walls of the castle there's a vaulted room, which used to be the kitchen. And inside the walls of the kitchen there's an old brick oven, where they used to bake bread...
My family got a little bit pissed off when I insisted on going back to look at it a third time, and used up the batteries of the camera taking tons of pictures. But seeing such an old oven, so similar to ours... its really COOL!
The floor seemed to be of redish bricks, the first course of the dome was out of large chunks of stone, like the walls of the castle, and the following courses were more red bricks, smaller and narrower than on our ovens, which were at one time covered with a layer of clay (?). No idea what they did for insulation... The oven floor is about 1.5 m in dameter, and the dome is quite low, the top closes in really steeply.
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