Farmers kitchen in village of "Liebling." The wall is stenciled. The stove is built from clay bricks and then whitewashed. Take notice the loaf of bread on the table to the right.

The whitewashed oven, built of clay, on top is a steel plate with four circled holes.  In front is a small gate with small hole in it. The holes are there to allow a draft to enter the oven and would improve the burning of the fire. Broken up corn stocks or corn roots would be used to fire the oven if wood wasn't available. In the background, a pipe or similar to a pipe entering the chimney. The back portion of the oven is higher as the front part of the oven. The back part of the oven is also used to do baking. After the oven was no longer in use, the ashes are removed from the ashes and disposed in the garden. (Alex Leeb)

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Very bottom, left to right; wine barrel; two bottles; cabbage cutter; scale; grape press (wine press); a stumpers, sometimes used to stomp the Sauerkraut; bottom right, a barrel, (wine barrel); hanging on the wall, looks like a cloth washer; round tube, is a sausage press, on right side of the side, it has a small tube sticking out, that's where the casing is pulled on. The wooden roller is pulled out from the large tube, the tube is filled with  mixed meat. The wooden roller is used to push the meat through the large tube. The mixed meat is forced into the casing.  Above the sausage tube, could be a tin cub; next, ?; triangle cup, with cloth inside the cup, was used to strain fresh milk, also could be for other purposes; wooden spoon, handing sideways; tin cup with a long handle, community cup for water; two small cups. (descriptions by Alex Leeb)

Jugs and baskets, drying peppers & garlic

(conical cylinders) used for baking shells for Schaumrollen pastry. The cylinders were made of tin -  with or without wire rods serving as handles.  Puff-paste (Blätterteig) dough was rolled out about 1/4-inch thick and sliced into strips an inch wide and a foot long. Each strip was wrapped, in an overlapping fashion, around a leavened cylinder and baked in the oven at high heat. The baked shells were dusted with powdered sugar and filled with whipped cream, after they had cooled sufficiently. (Jacob Steigerwald)

wooden bread making bowl