The keuken is the kitchen.
You may come across the term in estate inventories, where the items in the house are tallied by room. Kitchens originally had open fires, then hearths, and in the 19th and 20th century this gradually changed to stoves. Small houses where poor people lived did not typically have a separate kitchen. They would cook over the hearth fire or furnace in the living room.
Keuken around 1915/1916. Credits: Bernard F. Eilers, collection Stadsarchief Amsterdam (CC-0)
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