This picture is identified in the British Museum collection as Interior of a London Coffee-house. Anonymous. 1650-1750. Closeups from this and other images show some equipment in coffee houses of the period...The pots by the fire with the water heating in the copper hot water boiler:
Cruikshank's sketch, 1810:
Colonial Williamsburg reproductions:
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Don't you just love researching food -- my favorite is coming across old cookbooks and trying out the recipes (if you can figure out what is a 'goodly handful).
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