The Abbott's Kitchen in Glastonbury Abbey has been laid out as it would have looked 800 years ago. It is full of bread, grains, vegetables and herbs that make the whole room smell wonderful.
In the herb garden outside were some really interesting plants like woad:
"Isatic tinctoria; the word tinctoria means used in dyeing, it was known as wad in Anglo-Saxon times. The blue pigment is made when the partially dried leaves and seeds are crushed into a paste and exposed to air. Medicinally it is very astringent and was used to help stem the flow of blood; it was used for external complaints like ulcers, swelling and bleeding."
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The rest of my pictures from the Abbott's Kitchen are here!
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and - as Aileni said - in many ways it doesn't seem very different from mine - herbs, grain, veg, bread, herb garden in front and all. Only my kitchen is much smaller :)
Hmm, I'd love to be there at this instance. They are my perfume in the kitchen. In the second photo, the herbs are dried upside down. That's how I dry my flowers, too. Something I read somewhere else, I do not remember.
woof!
my keeper lui loves a herb garden but she does not know how to plant and dogs like me loves to chew on it!
maybe i should stay here awhile ...
Lovely still room shots as well as the woad. My daughter India Flint wrote Eco-Colour, a book on natural dye making without toxic waste products.
That is so lovely! The light in the second shot is gorgeous! Very interesting and beutiful entry!
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
fascinating
As I travel very often and I don't have a person to water down my erbs and flowers, I lost all my erbs. I love them!
Good week for you!
A very nice continuation of the monochrome post! They used many herbs and plants in those days. This put it all in perspective.
Impressive photos, sounds like such an interesting place to visit. Thanks for sharing them.
Nicely done! Love that last shot.
Like stepping by. Sometimes we really don't realize how nice it is to have so much right at our fingertips.
My post is here: Carletta’s Captures.
My favourite is the second shot, with all the herbs screening the window!!
How I would love to be inside this magical place..I'd even bring my "little mytserious" entries to TF meme!
Lovely to meet you! :)NG
Very nice photos!
Very pretty but your last shot has such a 3D effect it's amazing!!
Beautiful. Educational. Lighting is wonderful. Thank you!
Very interesting post and pictures!!
I love to cook and use many herbs from the garden.
Thank you for sharing.
These photos make me delightfully hungry. They are gorgeous.
Great photos. Amazing.
Have a nice week Kitty.
Regina
The Abbot's Kitchen must smell wonderful. I'd never thought about the plant from which woad was made - fascinating. I wondered what the flowers were like so looked them up.
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