Kovács Zsuzsa: Göcsej Village Museum. Exhibition Guide (Zalaegerszeg, 2008)

Bread container Bread was the staple diet of the family; they liked it and ate it alone or with hot meals. The housewives economized with the flour so that it could last for the whole year. The freshly baked bread was kept in the pantry on bread containers where loaves and pastries with thick crusts remained fresh for as long as two weeks. These containers are like shelves but there were different types in this area, for example, storied ones. This type can be seen in the pantry of the Zalalövő house. 'Lésza' kind of dryer Left of the entrance, next to the wall there is a 'lésza' made of wattle with a wooden door. It had two different uses in Göcsej: they dried and smoked either fruit or cottage cheese in it. The food was aired through the little holes in the wattle. If they dried fruit in it, it was placed in the attic, when they dried and smoked cottage cheese the 'lésza' was pulled up to the smoke-hole of the kitchen. Here the smoke coming from the oven smoked the cheese. Meat, sausage, and fat were also hung here where they could be smoked and thus conserved. 9. STABLE FROM HOTTÓ The stable stands beside the house. Its walls are yellow, covered with mud because the farm buildings usually were not whitewashed. A horse and cattl stable, a pantry and a barn together with the house form the croft. In the shed we can see some ploughs, wagons, barrows and on the wall some yokes and 'wagon-sides'. Neither the walls nor the entrance itself remains unused. The carving chair assumes its place there and the yoke is on the wall to be always at hand.