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scullery

A room, generally annexed to a kitchen, used to prepare food for cooking, and/or as a pantry.
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The Scullery, so named because that's what it was many years ago when the building was a Georgian manor and gentleman's residence, is accessed via an immaculately kept lawn and outdoor seating area complete with inbuilt sun trap.
"The problem began with getting in line to finally placing an empty tray in the scullery," said Marino.
She quit her job in a shop and became a commis chef at The Scullery in Glasgow before working her way up to become head chef at Babu in the city.
Not the sweet, demure scullery maid but a feisty, in-your-face, go-getter who sets her cap at Big Dave's (Cameron) Prince Charming.
Circumstances mean that young Daisy Dobbs has to leave school, which she really enjoys, to go and work as a scullery maid for the Misses Simms in London.
It is told in the first person alternately by Polly, who has been sent by her father in India to live with aristocratic relations in England after the death of her mother, and Jess, who has been elevated from her position in the scullery to act as lady's maid to Penelope.
The starlet has been working her way through a number of low key TV series in her home country but this year could be her year to go from scullery maid to belle of the ball as, according to Middle East news portal, Elaph, she has landed herself a 'Cinderella' role.
The Sun Inn in Chipping claims to be the most haunted pub in Lancashire, thanks largely to the ghost of Lizzie Dean, a scullery maid who committed suicide in the pub's attic back in 1835, aged just 20.
Scullery maid Molly, entrusted with polishing the silver at Dethmere Castle, sees visions whenever she polishes the ceremonial hand basin.
In both of these period pieces about masters and servants sharing a divided household, much of the real drama takes place in the basement kitchen and scullery. Meanwhile, HBO has served up a remake of Mildred Pierce, James M.
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