Ópusztaszer: Makói parasztház.

Makó became known here at home and abroad through onion production. Onion cultivation was an opportunity for small peasants and celery in the southern Great Plain market town, especially in the 19th century. from the boom period at the end of the 20th century. Out of the poor peasant existence, prominent onion gardeners bought a farmhouse in the 1920s and remodeled it to their own needs. So did Sándor Diós, an onion-producing peasant who bought the house built in 1834 in 1926. The walled, thatched-roofed building was later renovated, covered with tiles, and its free chimney was laid down. From the hallway we enter the kitchen, from there opens the big house (street room) and the small house (back room), which show the surroundings of a family of three generations. Here the parents live with their youngest son’s family. The furnishings of the room facing the street show that the emerging onions imitated the civic taste and way of life, but they still needed the oven in the room, above which the bulbs were kept on a reed grid in winter. On the walls of the room, the kitchen and the bottom of the eaves, he painted floral patterns with room painter (pictorial) or skillful peasant templates - this is also a manifestation of civilizing taste. The back room is XIX. century, its blue-painted furniture evokes the tastes of the older generation. A characteristic piece of furniture is the painted thinking chair with armrests, in which only the head of the family, ie the oldest man, could sit. The house has two chambers: the pantry and the root chamber. In the latter, vegetables stored in the sand were kept in the winter. They cooked, ate, and rested in the kitchen at the end of the hallway in the summer after the family got home from the field work. A horse and cow stable was built at the back of the house. In the color behind them, the work wagon, plow, harrow, seed drill, and other farm implements were kept. Opposite the house was built a grain-holding tooth and a cotyledon for storing tubular corn, an outbuilding called gore elsewhere. At the beginning of the yard, the owner had an incense burner (a building for smoking and preserving ham, bacon and other meats after slaughter of pigs) and a root washer next to the boom well.