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

IX Western Transdanubia - IX-3 Farmyard from Szentgyörgyvölgy

IX IX-3 Farmyard from Szentgyörgyvölgy The old master sat at the table with the guests and discussed the state of the world whilst someone played an old song on the zither in the corner Meanwhile, the landlady was preparing for home-canning in the kitchen. The pots and pans are stored upside down so that the soot and flue-ash did not dirty them. Everything in the kitchen was kept at a low level close to the floor because when the oven or fire was lit people had to stay low to avoid the smoke which filled the room from the ceiling downwards. While the mother was preparing the meal, the grandmother kept an eye on the little girl playing in the stool with a hole in it which was an early form of babywalker At the back of the yard there is a Imre Cseresnyés, the descendant of an ancient minor Zala County gentry family lived in the house with his wife, daughter and aged parents at the turn of the l9-20th centuries. They also had a farmhand living under the same roof. The L-shaped "bent house" consists of a front room, a black kitchen, a back room, a stable and a pigsty. The back room where the old couple lived also served as an unlicensed tavern, where wine was sold 5 times a year when livestock markets and fairs were held. Small-holders celebrated successful transactions with a glass of wine that sealed the bargain.