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CHAPTER II. 



Detailed Accounts, illustrated by correct Plans, of va- 

 rious Kitchens, public and private, that have already 

 been constructed on the Author s Principles, and under 

 his immediate Direction. 



ONE of the most complete kitchens I have ever yet 

 caused to be constructed is, in my opinion, that 

 belonging to Baron de Lerchenfeld at Munich, and 

 although its general form and the distribution of the ma- 

 chinery are very different from any thing that has been 

 seen in this country, so different that I should, perhaps, 

 doubt whether it would be prudent at the first outset 

 to recommend their adoption and exact imitation, yet 

 as this kitchen has been found to answer remarkably 

 well, even to the entire satisfaction of the cook, who 

 began, however, by entering his formal protest against 

 it, I have thought it right to lay the following descrip- 

 tion of it before my readers. Those who are alarmed 

 at the novelty of its appearance will be so good as to 

 recollect that much may be done, as will hereafter be 

 shown, by way of accommodating the plan to the idea 

 of those to whom it is too new not to appear extraordi- 

 nary and uncouth. 



Description of a Kitchen in the House of Baron de 

 Lerchenfeld at Munich. 



PLATE VII. 



Fig. i. This plate shows a perspective view of the 

 kitchen fire-place seen nearly in front. The mass of 



