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Colonial cooking

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Creator
David Walbert
Date created
October 11, 2007
Location
Alamance County, North Carolina
License
This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use

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Photograph of a demonstration of a colonial-era fire, with a kettle hanging over the fire and a chicken hanging nearby from a string.

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This photograph shows how a typical cooking fire might have looked in the colonial era. A kettle hangs over the fire, and a chicken hangs nearby from a string, cooking slowly. The string allowed the chicken to spin, causing it to cook evenly without having to be carefully tended.