Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

VII Southern Transdanubia - VII-12 House from Drávacsehi

VII-12 grandmother of PáL Kovács. However; in wintertime the whole family stayed here as it was the only heated room. The old fashioned painted plate-rack, the flowery bed from 1845 and the timberwork clothes chest belonged to the old lady. The newly-wed Pál Kovács and his wife Julianna Tóth slept in the front room. In this room the furniture represent the fashion of the period influenced by bourgeois taste. Julianna Tóth's widowed father also lived with the family, but slept in the stable to guard the animals. All the inhabitants of this house were the descendants of Protestant families most of them born in Csehi or the neighbouring village. Marrige relations originate from the custom of endogamy in Baranya. • Baking bell On top of the oven there is an earthenware baking bell with a loop for baking griddle-cakes. To use it a fire was made on top of the oven or outside on the ground, the cinders were swept away and the pastry placed on the heated surface then covered with the baking bell. This originated in the Balkans and was used by Serbians, Catholic Serbians, Croatians and Romanians. S3