1857.] of Heat to Military Cookery, 426 



By the introduction of this oven, other improvements are 

 effected : the flues are shortened, the fires brought nearer to- 

 gether, and the whole of the kettles boil simultaneously. The 

 advantages of this system of cooking could only have been obtained 

 by the application of the principle of horizontal draft ; and the same 

 principle may be carried out with equal advantage for warming the 

 dwellings of the working classes. The subject is worthy the con- 

 sideration of those interested in tlie philanthropic undertaking of 

 erecting blocks of dwellings for our houseless poor. This principle 

 will also be found applicable in many cases, where the perpendicular 

 shaft is adopted in our large factories, pouring out its column of 

 fire and wasted heat. 



An apparatus, upon the principle of cooking for troops in 

 permanent barracks, has lately been erected at the North- West 

 Reformatory Institution, in the New Road, for the use of its 

 inmates, which combines the means of cooking, baking, washing, 

 drying the linen, and supplying hot water for baths. It might be 

 extended with advantage to our prisons, unions, and all large esta- 

 blishments requiring such conveniences. 



Public bakehouses might also avail themselves of this principle. 

 By the aid of two small fires, heating the oven from without, and 

 lining the interior with brick or tile, the baking might be carried on 

 with some advantages over the present system. 



[J. G.] 



and 6 inches deep, with any description of fuel, if the principle is properly 

 carried out. 



A school for the instruction of cooking might be added with advantage to 

 the many excellent ones already established for the improvement and comfort 

 of the British soldier. 



