Virtual Tour: Burns Cottage, Alloway

The Kitchen

The kitchen of the cottage would be the heart of the home for the Burnes family. In this room, food would be cooked on the range, meals would be eaten around the fire, the bible would be read aloud, the women of the house would spin yarn for clothes and the box beds and pull-out cots would provide sleeping space.

Cooking range

A large pot on a moveable arm was used to heat food over the peat fire and simple tools for cooking were hung around the fire, or range, as it was called. Simple meals of broth, oatmeal, eggs or fish would be cooked on the range.