A few years ago our miniatures group decided to make a castle to display at the annual Sydney Miniatures Show. We each made a room box with an open front, the boxes stacked together to form the whole castle.
I somehow got the kitchen - I finished up making another kitchen for our group project the following year as well, for someone who dislikes cooking as much as I do, I don't know how I manage to score the kitchens each time.
I made the disreputable looking cooks and servants from polyclay and the food was a combination of polyclay and fired pottery clay. I used to make miniature pottery to sell at the shows but haven't done this for a few years now.
I've decided to take the kitchen apart now and use the empty room to make the pub the "Mended Drum" from the Terry Pratchett Discworld series, so I took some photos before it was dismantled.
This is the full view of the kitchen with and without the work table:
Over in the corner of the kitchen is the spit boy whose job it is to keep turning the roast pig over the open fire.
Here are the cooks working on the evening banquet
The head cook looks a very calm chap despite the not-very-bright kitchen staff he has working for him.
Here's the baker taking a load of bread from the oven (the oven was lit with a flicking red LED)
This door leads through to the larder and corridor with stairs leading up to the banquet hall above:
In the larder, a servant stacks kegs of wine, another servant takes plates up to the Lord and Lady of the castle, and the butcher slices ham into a tub of salt.
Baskets of pumpkins, brussel sprouts and barrels of preserves are stacked in the larder.
Back in the kitchen the cooks have been busy with the banquet.
I made all of the pottery dishes used here, some were hand built and some thrown on a full size pottery wheel.
Next time you see this room it will be as the pub.
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