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A pantry is a room or cupboard where beverages, food, dishes, household cleaning products, linens or provisions are stored within a home or office. Food and beverage pantries serve in an ancillary cap
A contemporary kitchen pantry
Nineteenth-century pantry in Museu Romàntic Can Papiol in Vilanova i la Geltrú
Butler's pantry at the Little White House
Cold pantry exterior vents
Buttery (room)
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A buttery was originally a large cellar room under a monastery, in which food and drink were stored for the provisioning of strangers and passing guests. Nathan Bailey's An Universal Etymological Engl
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…responsible for this room is referred to as a pantler. There were similar rooms for cooler storage of meats and lard/butter (larder), alcoholic beverages (buttery, known for the "butts", or barrels, stored there), and cooking (kitchen). In the United States, pantries evolved from early Colonial American "butteries…
Rochlitz Castle, Germany, basement wine cellar, perhaps providing an idea of the mediaeval buttery
Wine bins in the undercroft of Norton Priory, near Runcorn, Cheshire, an example of a wine storage area in a historic domestic setting
The classic layout of an important mediaeval house, showing three doorways to service rooms, Old Rectory, Warton. These doorways are here seen from inside the Great Hall, but would originally have been hidden by the wooden screen of the screens passage. The central doorway leads into a passage to an outside kitchen. The other two doors are to the pantry and buttery
The buttery is typically located close to a dining hall as in this example from Haddon Hall, Derbyshire; ground plan from 1886