I’m maybe a little to excited about this but I’m getting a larder cupboard, a little area to stockpile nice things!
Show us your larder cupboard! Some ideas to work towards!
Show us your larder cupboard! Some ideas to work towards!
Show us your larder cupboard
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I so want a proper walk in larder, or a larder cupboard. Lucky you.
I've just been looking at them and am toying with the idea of getting one. Trouble is, where will it go? Do I get rid of my long adored Welsh dresser, which takes up the only space available, or not...dilemma.
I definatly need more and better storage.
Can we see a pic of yours?
Somewhere cool, like a garage? Metal office cabinets might be good value?
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Maybe I’m painting the wrong impression, it’s just a big cupboard, as in from floor to ceiling! Not a walk in one
Ours is a bit scruffy to post pics, but it's a proper larder and a decent size. One problem is it can get a bit damp, ok for some things but others, such as tins, are not suited as they can go a bit rusty after a year or two.
If you are thinking of more of emergency food pantry I'd be working out the amount of shelf space, realistic stacking depth and height and then think about what combination of cans or items you want to include as a mix-n-match.
If its just a normal pantry for everyday life - fill it with what you use.
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Everyday life with enough space to have stock, work on a rotation business, new stuff to the back!
I don’t want to stock pile waste and throw things out in a few years time as it was never used, been there and wasted things before sadly. With everything so expensive I want to ensure it’s a good investment!
I don’t want to stock pile waste and throw things out in a few years time as it was never used, been there and wasted things before sadly. With everything so expensive I want to ensure it’s a good investment!
The good thing about a pantry is that when there's a decent special offer on something that you actually use regularly, you can stock up and store safely and conveniently.
Olive oil's going cheap around here just now; the Berio stuff, so I've stashed a load last week. The other one on offer just now (Sainsbury's) was Nido
Also jars of expensive mincemeat going for a quarter of their usual price. If you bake, it's useful, tasty stuff, and it will keep for years if unopened.
Pickling vinegar is the other buy going cheaply just now.
Often such offers are seasonal, and you can pick them up year on year at bargain prices.
If you don't have a pantry then just normal special deal buys can quickly overwhelm your cupboard space, and that's before you can the seasonal harvest.
Olive oil's going cheap around here just now; the Berio stuff, so I've stashed a load last week. The other one on offer just now (Sainsbury's) was Nido
Also jars of expensive mincemeat going for a quarter of their usual price. If you bake, it's useful, tasty stuff, and it will keep for years if unopened.Pickling vinegar is the other buy going cheaply just now.
Often such offers are seasonal, and you can pick them up year on year at bargain prices.
If you don't have a pantry then just normal special deal buys can quickly overwhelm your cupboard space, and that's before you can the seasonal harvest.
Our current house has a larder room with a big marble 'cold shelf' at the back.
Unfortunately swmbo doesn't see it's potential as a useful larder and uses it as our "garage" and thus it is filled with cra....er....rubbish
Unfortunately swmbo doesn't see it's potential as a useful larder and uses it as our "garage" and thus it is filled with cra....er....rubbish
In case anyone else has ever wondered and enjoys where words come from as much as me?
( Just me then... )
As both Pantry and Larder have been used.
Meaning "department of the royal household or of a monastic house in charge of stored meats" is mid-15c. Figurative use, in reference to a "storehouse" of anything, is by 1620s. Surname Lardner "person in charge of a larder" is attested from mid-12c., from Middle English lardyner, from Medieval Latin lardenarius "steward."
also from c. 1300
( Just me then... )
As both Pantry and Larder have been used.
pantry
early 14c., panterie, pantre, "a storeroom or closet, especially for bread," from Anglo-French panetrie (late 13c. in surnames; Old French paneterie) "bread room" and directly from Medieval Latin panataria "office or room of a servant who has charge of food" ("bread"), from Latin panis "bread," from PIE root *pa- "to feed." The sense in English soon evolved so that the word's roots in "bread" were no longer felt and it came to be used of any closet for provisions generally or where plates and knives are cleaned.larder
c. 1300, "supply of salt pork, bacon, and other meats," later in reference to the room for processing and storing such (late 14c.), from Anglo-French larder, Old French lardier "tub for bacon, place for meats," from Medieval Latin lardarium "a room for meats," from Latin lardum "lard, bacon" (see lard (n.)).Meaning "department of the royal household or of a monastic house in charge of stored meats" is mid-15c. Figurative use, in reference to a "storehouse" of anything, is by 1620s. Surname Lardner "person in charge of a larder" is attested from mid-12c., from Middle English lardyner, from Medieval Latin lardenarius "steward."
also from c. 1300
I love words,
larder
noun [ C ]
UK
/ˈlɑː.dər/ US
/ˈlɑːr.dɚ/
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a cupboard or small room used, especially in the past, for storing food in someone's home:
a well-stocked (= full of food) larder
cupboard
noun [ C ]
UK
/ˈkʌb.əd/ US
/ˈkʌb.ɚd/
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A2
a piece of furniture or a space for storing things, with a door or doors and usually with shelves:
a kitchen cupboard
in a cupboard We keep the hoover and mop in a cupboard under the stairs.
cupboard space Is there plenty of cupboard space (= are there many cupboards) in your new house?
larder
noun [ C ]
UK
/ˈlɑː.dər/ US
/ˈlɑːr.dɚ/
Add to word list
a cupboard or small room used, especially in the past, for storing food in someone's home:
a well-stocked (= full of food) larder
cupboard
noun [ C ]
UK
/ˈkʌb.əd/ US
/ˈkʌb.ɚd/
Add to word list
A2
a piece of furniture or a space for storing things, with a door or doors and usually with shelves:
a kitchen cupboard
in a cupboard We keep the hoover and mop in a cupboard under the stairs.
cupboard space Is there plenty of cupboard space (= are there many cupboards) in your new house?
We call it a press.....I'm told that comes from the French presse, a storage cupboard or cabinet.
Pantry is a food cupboard. A larder is a cold cupboard for storing fresh food, working on such, like meat.
A buttery is where wine and ale were decanted, stored, etc.,
Pantry is a food cupboard. A larder is a cold cupboard for storing fresh food, working on such, like meat.
A buttery is where wine and ale were decanted, stored, etc.,
I am building my home at the moment, and in the design is a walk-in larder, 3m length x 2m wide x 3m high. It is going to be super insolated with 200mm Rockwall and 150mm selotec insolation, and wire meshed floors and walls, to stop rodents. One small window and vents to air to keep it fresh.
The plan is for it to look like this, but twice as much floor space to walk around
The plan is for it to look like this, but twice as much floor space to walk around
I work in a lot of actual larders, on deer of course!
Question Toddy would some of those larders be a marble shelf for temperature stability rather than chilled as we know it?
I remember my gran had a cupboard but I can only remember one big marble shelf! The rest weren’t, but that was 40 plus years ago!
Y'know ? folks used what they had. My Granny's kitchen had a flag stone floor, even in the heat of Summer it was cold in there. Her presses were cupboards built into the sandstone wall of her cottage.
Friends who live in a Victorian villa have a pantry with slate shelves and a marble bunker (area beside a sink to prep food, we'd call it a worktop now).
Having lived through the shortages of the 1970's, to the latest lock down, honestly ? we're so food rich as a society these days. Most folks who do store, store more than they'll ever use.
I know that there are food kitchens and folks in need of the free food charities, but on the whole, most of us can easily have too much. Especially if you grow and dry and can too.
When my Granny died we found huge sweetie jars packed full of sugar in the bottom of one of her presses.
She had lived through two world wars, she was never going to be without sugar again.....took our family of five well over a year to use it up, and that was including jam making.
We share that mindset, but these days most of us don't need to. I encourage everyone to keep a decent pantry, but there's the whole hoarding thing that goes too far.
Amish women work on a glut one year sure that it'll cover for the next one too, so that's work they don't need to do the next year.
That sounds practical to me. If you're not using up stuff in the two years, you've stashed too much.
I'm as guilty of it as anyone else, but the older I get the more I start to think that enough is a very good thing.
M
Friends who live in a Victorian villa have a pantry with slate shelves and a marble bunker (area beside a sink to prep food, we'd call it a worktop now).
Having lived through the shortages of the 1970's, to the latest lock down, honestly ? we're so food rich as a society these days. Most folks who do store, store more than they'll ever use.
I know that there are food kitchens and folks in need of the free food charities, but on the whole, most of us can easily have too much. Especially if you grow and dry and can too.
When my Granny died we found huge sweetie jars packed full of sugar in the bottom of one of her presses.
She had lived through two world wars, she was never going to be without sugar again.....took our family of five well over a year to use it up, and that was including jam making.
We share that mindset, but these days most of us don't need to. I encourage everyone to keep a decent pantry, but there's the whole hoarding thing that goes too far.
Amish women work on a glut one year sure that it'll cover for the next one too, so that's work they don't need to do the next year.
That sounds practical to me. If you're not using up stuff in the two years, you've stashed too much.
I'm as guilty of it as anyone else, but the older I get the more I start to think that enough is a very good thing.
M
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