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A butler's pantry or serving pantry is a utility room in a large house, primarily used to store serving items, rather than food. Traditionally, a butler's pantry was used for cleaning, counting, and storage of silver. European butlers often slept in the pantry, as their job was to keep the silver under lock and key.
In the L-kitchen, the cabinets occupy two adjacent walls. Again, the work triangle is preserved, and there may even be space for an additional table at a third wall, provided it does not intersect the triangle. A U-kitchen has cabinets along three walls, typically with the sink at the base of the "U". This is a typical work kitchen, too, unless ...
The scullery of Brodick Castle. A scullery is a room in a house, traditionally used for washing up dishes and laundering clothes, or as an overflow kitchen.Tasks performed in the scullery include cleaning dishes and cooking utensils (or storing them), occasional kitchen work, ironing, boiling water for cooking or bathing, and soaking and washing clothes.
A utility room is a room where equipment not used in day-to-day activities is kept. "Utility" refers to an item which is designed for usefulness or practical use, so in turn most of the items kept in this room have functional attributes.
No pantry? No problem! One upper cabinet, one lower, and one drawer can become an efficient food storage system with the right infrastructure.
Nathan Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary gives "CELLARIST – one who keeps a Cella, or Buttery; the Butler in a religious House or Monastery." As the definition in John Stevens's The History of the Antient Abbeys shows, its initial function was to feed and water the guests rather than monks: "The Buttery; the Lodging for ...
A pantry may contain a thrawl, a word used in Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire to denote a stone slab or shelf, or in more affluent households, a slab of marble, used to keep food cool in the days before refrigeration was domestically available. In a late medieval hall, a thrawl would have been placed in a larder or pantry.
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