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

X Kisalföld - X-8 House from Süttör

X-8 centuries the crossbeam indicated backwardness, Later even poverty. The polished furniture was made of hardwood, typical of bourgeois taste with crocheted spreads and doilies. Household utensils, dishes and containers can be seen in the common pantry which also houses the press used for smoothing clothes. The house was built in several stages: the back room and the pantry in 1825, the front room, the kitchen and the porch around 1890. In the museum the building is shown as it took shape by 1914. when the kitchen was modernised among the first ones in the village. The vaulted chimney was replaced by an internally accessible flue, a new breadbaking oven and a cooking range with ornate metal-work. At the time these ranges were the signs of modern lifestyle and abundance. The grandparents lived in the back room, the parents and their children in the front one, which had a flat ceiling. At the turn of the 19th-20th <T& , or*-* • Honey-cake Honey-cake is being prepared in the kitchen. The traditional recipe goes like this: knead flour sugar honey, cooking soda, cinnamon and ground cloves into a dough. Let it rest then roll it out and cut various shapes from the pastry. Decorate them with