Old kitchen aroma

“The aroma {in the Maine farm kitchen} was a combination of wood smoke and hot iron, lingering cookery, drying mittens and socks, warming boots, barn clothes, wintering geraniums on the window sills, and the relaxed effluence of a lazy beagle roasting under the stove.’’

—John Gould (1908-2003), in Next Time Around: Some Things Pleasantly Remembered (1983), about the author’s life in Maine