There were even wheat cakes

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The manor workers can be roughly divided into two groups, one of which was responsible for management and accounting, and the other, the servants, for carrying out the everyday chores of the manor. This division was most clearly visible in the meals. Food was part of the salary of the people working on the manor, and the higher the status of the worker, the better and more diverse it was made from raw materials. The better-off people ate meals at their own voudin table, which were prepared using groats, malt, beef tongue, cheese, salmon, eggs and vinegar, Finnish pike and salted herring, i.e. foods that were missing from the servants' table.

There were even wheat cakes on offer and meals were eaten by candlelight. In addition to the voud acting as foreman, the people at the voud's table included a scribe, a cellar servant, the fatabuuriemäntä (the mistress of the women's hut/weaving room) his wife Lucia – the only woman at the table – and the soldiers who kept the castle camp (the nihds, the hoovits and the cavalry soinit). Since the manors telegram number database also served crown officials like inns, offering them and their horses accommodation and entertainment, and Partala was located along one of the kingdom's main roads, many crown men and other traveling men visited it.

There were stallion riders, gunmen on their way to Lappeenranta or Vyborg, men traveling to Rääveli, teenagers on their teenage tour, or the governor of Olavinlinna, Gustaf Fincke, staying overnight in Partala on a passing trip. These men visiting the manor easily increased the number of diners at the voud's table to over thirty each week.