From: Year of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks
The Hall had... two big bacon settles... at leaf-fall, just afer the hog were slaughtered, the scent of new-cured flitches hanging inside could be overpowering.


i know a settle can be a high backed bench, with built in storage, but flitches i have never heard of! (again, the text makes the meaning of the word somewhat evident)


my other obsession