EN LA COCINA

Some of the cookery implements known to Altamiras are still around in everyday life or in museums. They help us journey in time to his kitchens, dishes and cooking techniques.

Fragments of friary tableware (Private collection, Cariñena)

Earthenware cup & saucer

Box-wood skimming spoons, spatulas & mortars (Manuel Bauzó, Tortella)

Escudilla (Sto Espíritu de Gilet)

Hilador or colander, for making candied egg threads

Olive oil pouring bottle

Portable charcoal oven, balloon flask, oil lamp (Museo de los Origenes, Madrid)

Iced drinks freezing bucket (Alquería dels Frares, Sagunt)

Tinaja, earthennware storage jar for oil or water (Sto Espíritu de Gilet)

Balanza, for weighing olive oil (Fundación Patrimonio Comunal Olivero)

Earthenware stewing pot (olla)

Wooden pestle & mortar

Cucharón

Iron chimney stewing pot (olla)

Flat-based earthenware perol

Clay botijo, water bottle

Cazuela with rounded base & metal cagework

Fire fan

Table jug, 18th-century relief design (Biar)

17 Various decorated escudillas (Museo de Villena)

Caramelising iron

Brass almirez, marble mortars @ minipim

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