134 ANNUAL REGISTER, 18G0. 



pitmen and other labourers of the 

 counties of Durham and Northum- 

 berland. It is mixed with wheat 

 in some parts of the north, and ex- 

 periments have been successfully 

 made by mixing it with other grain 

 for bread. 



Pease and Potatoes. 

 The Idrds' committees also call 

 the attention of your lordships to the 

 use of pease in various methods, 

 particularly in soups for the labour- 

 ing classes, and in mixed breads ; 

 and also that of potatoes, which 

 have, by rapid degrees, within the 

 last twenty- years, been introduced 

 as a very general food among all 

 descriptions of persons. 



Rice. 

 Your lordships' committees next 

 proceed to call your attention to 

 the article of rice. They have 

 great satisfaction in confirming to 

 your lordships the information con- 

 tained in the report of the commit- 

 tee of the house of commons, of 

 the expectation of a large import- 

 ation of this excellent and nutri- 

 tious food. They have heard from 

 all parts of the country where this 

 substitute has been introduced, that 

 the utmost satisfaction has arisen 

 whenever its advantages, and the 

 use to which it should be applied, 

 have been understood ; and as your 

 committee are aware, that the most 

 detailed instructions are necessary in 

 order to bring into general use a 

 substitute of the nature of rice, 

 which can only be rendered fully 

 advantageous as a food of man, by 

 attention to some circumstances in 

 the modes of preparing it, the 

 knowledge of which (notwithstand- 

 ing the highly-commendable endea- 

 vours used for that purpose, parti- 



cularly by the society for bettering 

 the condition of the poor ) is not yet 

 universally diiFused, they have 

 thought It necessary in this case, 

 and in others which they have sub- 

 mitted, and proposed to submit to 

 your lordships, to enter into a mi- 

 nute detail in the appendix of this 

 report, confident that by such 

 means they are most likely to fur- 

 ther the great end of economy in 

 the consumption of grain, and es- 

 pecially of wheat. 



The use of rice is very beneficial 

 where it is mixed with wheat and 

 other grain, for the purpose of 

 making bread. 



Such bread is stated to your com- 

 mittee to have been made, and rea- 

 dily purchased by the poorer classes 

 in the neighbourhood of Gloucester, 

 and also in part of Sussex. And 

 bread made of four parts wheat and 

 one part rice is now made in Lon- 

 don, and sold in considerable quan- 

 tities, at a price below that of the 

 wheaten loaf. It has also been suc- 

 cessfully tried for a considerable 

 period in private families. 



But the committee do not consider 

 the use of rice in bread as the most 

 economical or advantageous way 

 of applying this article to the food 

 of the labouring classes. A great 

 variety of Information has satisfied 

 them, that more food is produced 

 from it, by some of the other me- 

 thods, of which particular ac- 

 counts are stated in the appendix, 

 and they are enabled to add, from 

 the concurrent testimony of per- 

 sons from almost every part of the 

 kingdom, that wherever this ar- 

 ticle has been introduced, it has 

 been found to afford both a pa- 

 latable and nutritious food. In 

 Rutlandshire,particularly,theyhave 

 been informed, that it is now ge*- 



