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

log-walled, tiled flax-drying and bucking house from Magyarföld. It contains a brick built oven daubed with mud and with a cauldron in it. In autumn the sheaves of flax were laid out on long rods to dry after being soaked in the stream. Yarn was also bleached here. From spring until autumn household linen, underwear and sacks were also soaked here. A barn, a woodshed and an apiary also form part of the farmyard. In the kitchen there is an ingenious lighting device allowing people to work in the evening. It consists of a pair of wrought iron pincers fastened on a vertically adjustable stick mounted on a wooden frame. A lit splinter of pinewood was placed in the jaws of the pincers and this provided sufficient light to undertake household chores. • Fokla • The tavern Taverns were only allowed to operate within the boundaries of a settlement if the owner had a publican's licence. There were seasonal and permanent taverns. Seasonal taverns were also called "cantor's taverns", or "quarter taverns" and opened from Michaelmas to Christmas or New Years Day (some of them were unlicensed). 135