🕳️ Cellar
Also known as: root cellar
Traditional cool storage for milk and sour cream.
A cellar is an underground or half-underground room for storing food. Before fridges, it was one of the main places to keep milk, sour cream, cream and butter, as well as vegetables.
A cellar works thanks to the earth. Underground, the temperature hardly changes: in winter it does not freeze there, and in summer it stays cool. Many foods keep longest at a temperature just above zero, around 0 to +2 °C, with high humidity. So the cellar helped keep the harvest until spring.
Other methods were used for milk too. For example, a small building was put up over a cold spring — in English, a springhouse. The cold spring water cooled the milk. Such buildings were common in the countryside until electricity reached it. With home fridges, cellars were needed less often. But many country homes still use them — for potatoes, pickles and jam.
How it connects to milk
Links
- What is stored or sold here
- 🥣 Sour cream, 🥛 Milk
- Wine and milk
- 🍷 Wine cellar, 🍷 Marani
Frequently asked questions
Why is it cool in a cellar?
Underground, the temperature hardly changes: it does not freeze in winter and stays cool in summer.
How was milk kept without a fridge?
In a cellar, in the cool water of a spring or well, and in special buildings over springs.
What is the best temperature for storing food in a cellar?
Many foods keep longest at 0 to +2 °C with high humidity.
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