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

EXHIBITION GUIDE no other choice. Here in this small pantry the young couple live, they could have a relatively independent life only in this cold and simple room. The pantry is always cold for it cannot be heated. On freezing winter nights some embers brought in a pot made the room a little bit warmer. Since the small pantry was lived in, the other one served as a storeroom for food and tools. In this one there are no wooden granaries only small containers alongside the wall. Tree Trunk to keep cereal A dry tree trunk is suitable not only for well-rims and beehives, but for containers too. This huge 'bodon' here in the exhibition was used to keep oats in. The owner made it himself. He took home the trunk from the wood, hollowed it out, put planks at the bottom, attached a door to it, and used it as a grain store. An interesting story about it is that the owner's neighbour hid in this 'bodon' from the Russian soldiers.