haydee
2021-10-01 16:16:51
- #1
But back then in the good old days, when the butler took the jackets and brought them to a separate room, the servants or riffraff worked in a separate kitchen wing, cheaper that way without social benefits, collective agreements and the like...
... back then I would be a woman, marked by lack of healthcare, one-sided diet, lack of money. Sleeping in the unheated chamber above the kitchen with the dining table and my only jacket hanging by the door. When the masters came to Kissingen for a cure, I would try again to get a job as a maid, so that at least I wouldn’t eat away the old man and the children. Maybe I would be lucky, like my great-grandmother, and receive fabric scraps from a rich lady as a gift and my children would have warm clothes for the next winter. I put the pot with the Säuädöpfel (small or slightly green or no longer really edible potatoes for the pigs) on the stove and cook apple puree. Tomorrow we go to the forest to collect acorns, chestnuts, last elderberries. The pigs still need to put on fat, there were too few potatoes and grain. It’s not enough to get through the winter.
... back then I would be a woman, marked by lack of healthcare, one-sided diet, lack of money. Sleeping in the unheated chamber above the kitchen with the dining table and my only jacket hanging by the door. When the masters came to Kissingen for a cure, I would try again to get a job as a maid, so that at least I wouldn’t eat away the old man and the children. Maybe I would be lucky, like my great-grandmother, and receive fabric scraps from a rich lady as a gift and my children would have warm clothes for the next winter. I put the pot with the Säuädöpfel (small or slightly green or no longer really edible potatoes for the pigs) on the stove and cook apple puree. Tomorrow we go to the forest to collect acorns, chestnuts, last elderberries. The pigs still need to put on fat, there were too few potatoes and grain. It’s not enough to get through the winter.