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| 19th Century Style Pie Safe |
I know that this is not your usual farming project but if you think about it it was a necessary one, even an important one. Due to the fact in the early 19th century there was no refrigerators or ice boxes or a way to keep the critters out of the food that was prepared and needing a cool down. When you cook your food from the garden that you have worked very hard to maintain and on of your little indoor animals gets to it before you do it can be very frustrating. So in order to allow the hard earned work of growing the fruit and making a pie and not go to waste the pie safe was the first line of defence against Murphy's law.
Some things were considered important when building the pie safe. It needed to be sturdy and it had to let the steam and heat out without damaging the cabinet. The solution was to either put punched tin on all the openings or chicken wire. I chose to use chicken wire for my first completes Pie Safe. The pie safe is 60 3/4 inches tall, 40 inches wide, and 13 1/2 inches deep so it can handle most of your baked goods.
I got the plans from a book in the library called "Building Classic Antique Furniture With Pine". I highly recomend that if you use this book that you need to pay close attention to what you are building and not what the book says exactly or you will have to make the parts more than once in order to make everything fit properly. The ideas is great but the plans if made the way it says will have less than desirable results.
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| I used Chicken wire to allow goods to breath |
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| Two fully functional Drawers |
That being said here is my version of a pie safe.
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| Plenty of storage space |
