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All tliese were put into an earthenware pot and boiled for two 

 hours and a quarter ; then divided into twelve portions of '^^^^ loths 

 each, costing If kreutzer. 



Second, for the bread dumpling, 

 lbs. loths. Kreutzers. 



1 13 of fine Semel bread 10 



1 of fine flour 4^ 



6 salt 0^ 



3 water 



Total. 5 19 Cost 15 



This mass was made into dumplings, which were boiled half an 

 hour in clear water. Upon taking them out of the water they were 

 found to weigh 5 pounds 24 loths, giving 15^ loths to each portion, 

 costing \\ kreutzer. 



The meat, soup, and dumplings were served all at once in the 

 same dish, and were all eaten together at dinner. Each member of 

 the mess was also supplied with 10 loths of rye-bread, which cost five 

 sixteenths of a kreutzer. Also with 10 loths of the same for breakfast, 

 another piece of the same weight in the afternoon, and another for his 

 supper, 



A detailed analysis of this is given, the sum total of which shows 

 that each man received in avoirdupois weight daily : 



lbs. ozs. 



2 2,-\fo of solids, 



1 2 ]^fo of " prepared water," 



3 5 iVo total solids and fluids, 



which cost 5^ kreutzers, or twopence sterling, very nearly. Other 

 bills of fares of other messes, officially reported, give about the same. 

 This is exclusive of the cost of fuel, etc., for cooking. 



All who are concerned in soup-kitchens or other economic dietaries 

 should carefully study the details supplied in these essays of Count 

 Rumford ; they are thoroughly practical, and, although nearly a cent- 

 ury old, are highly instructive at the present day. With their aid 

 large basins of good, nutritious soup might be supplied at one penny 

 per basin, leaving a profit for establishment expenses ; and, if such 

 were obtainable at Billingsgate, Smithfield, Leadenhall, Covent-Gar- 

 den, and other markets in London and the provinces, where poor men 

 are working at early hours and cold mornings, the dram-drinking 

 which prevails so fatally in such places would be more effectually 

 superseded than by any temperance missions which are limited to 

 mere talking. Such soup is incomparably better than tea or coffee. 

 It should be included in the bill of fare of all the coffee-palaces and 

 such-like establishments. — Knowledge. 



