The kitchen, with its stone-vaulted ceiling, is organised to provide all styles of cooking : a broad open hearth for the roasting spit, a closed oven for braising, the range with its five hobs for sauces and soups, the pastry-oven with a special comportment for raising the dough.

Copper utensils of all sorts, Pré d'Auge pottery, pewter, glassware and earthenware decorate this kitchen, which, with its delicious smells of cooking, seems ready to function.

The laundry, next to the kitchen, is the room dedicated to water, with its indoor well, its sink and its draining racks.

A cook-automaton explains how the kitchen was run in the 18th century and reveals the secrets of its recipes.

Click once on the book to discover this year's recipe taken from Maurice's cookery-book.