What is the difference between an Larder and a Pantry?

What is the difference between pantry and larder? Is it size? What is content?

I found very similar definitions for both terms, something like

a room or place in which food is stored.

Which of the words is better for a separate room next to the kitchen, and which is better for a food-dedicated cupboard? If a castle was built, or even for food storage, like they used to have in castles?

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Usually both room can be either as a cupboard or separate room. Sometimes both would be interesting to have one, but I think this should be like an outside mirror for my own rooms. So what are the differences in understanding.

What’s the pantry where we store food, such as flour, preserves and so on?

Saddle: a place where food that don’t last is kept, such as onions, eggs, milk, etc.

Answered on March 28, 2021.
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I would say it’s specifically a matter of usage.

“Pantry” is the preferred term in the US for a separate room next to the kitchen or a closet/cupboard where food is stored, whereas “larder” and “pantry” are more or less equally used in the UK to refer to that place.

Pantry : a room or closet in which food, groceries, and other provisions, or silverware, dishes, etc. are stored. For what reasons are they kept?

Larder. A room or place where food is stored; pantry.

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Answered on December 20, 2021.
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What is Larder? If anglo-Saxons retained meat and perishable food in fat or leather, they were making their meals easier than modern-day Europeans were than Germans. Because the Pantry is Jorman French and comes from the word for bread, (pay) so either word is acceptable for food storage, and are interchanged regularly in the UK

still.

Answered on December 20, 2021.
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How do you define answer to it? It was back in the Middle Ages, as explained above. As in modern times if we follow down family customs, or like family traditions. In our family we had a larder which was a room backing onto the exterior wall where there was an air brick which kept the room cool and we stored cans,vegetables etc.. Why are

we dripping?

Answered on December 20, 2021.
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What is Larder? If anglo-Saxons retained meat and perishable food in fat or leather, they were making their meals easier than modern-day Europeans were than Germans. Because the Pantry is Jorman French and comes from the word for bread, (pay) so either word is acceptable for food storage, and are interchanged regularly in the UK

still.

Answered on December 20, 2021.
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What is Larder? If anglo-Saxons retained meat and perishable food in fat or leather, they were making their meals easier than modern-day Europeans were than Germans. Because the Pantry is Jorman French and comes from the word for bread, (pay) so either word is acceptable for food storage, and are interchanged regularly in the UK

still.

Answered on December 20, 2021.
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