Seen these at the Australian museum yesterday. I wonder what they have brewed up in their lifetimes.

[Trent]

Seen these at the Australian museum yesterday. I wonder what they have brewed up in their lifetimes.

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[QueerBallOfFluff]

My grandmother has a load of cauldrons of various sizes, and most are now used as planters in her gardens. If you didn’t know the story you would think they’re replicas or kitschy things from a garden centre…. But!!!

Those cauldrons are actually the pots my great grandmother cooked with over her open fire in the kitchen/living-room. They cooked like that until well into the 1980s when the cottage was finally modernised and got a range cooker! At least 4 generations of women in my family, up to and including my mother, have genuinely cooked things in cauldrons.

It was funny because we went to this little medieval house in Wales and the guide was like “this is the fireplace they would have had at the time, just an open firepit at one end under the chimney”, and my mum lit up as she went “oh yes! My grandmother used to cook over one like this for a long time” and the guide’s head basically exploded as he tried to absorb the information that it wasn’t just a medieval thing.

[a-real-life-dolphin]

Is that the one in Canberra?