436 On the Construction of Kitchen 



monger's shop at Munich, cost me three shillings 

 sterling. 



In manufacturing these pans, five of them, one placed 

 within the other, are brought under the hammer at the 

 same time ; and, in being hammered out and brought 

 to their proper form and thickness, they are frequently 

 heated red-hot. When they come from the hammer, 

 they are carried to the lathe and are turned on the 

 inside, and made clean and bright, and their edges are 

 turned and made even. They are then packed up one 

 within the other, or in nests (as these parcels are called), 

 and are sold by weight. 



The following figure represents one of these pans in 

 its most simple state, placed on three stones, over a 

 fire made with small sticks of wood on the ground in 

 the open air : 



Fig. 75- 



The pan used by the Bavarian soldiers which, as I 

 just observed, is placed on a tripod or trivet of iron 

 is about 20 inches in diameter above, 16 inches in 

 diameter below, and 4! inches deep. 



As a great part of the heat generated in the combus- 

 tion of the fuel that is burned under this pan escaped 

 by its sides, to prevent in some measure this loss, I 

 enclosed the pan in a circular hoop or cylinder of sheet 

 iron. The diameter of this hoop was just equal to the 

 diameter of the pan above or at its brim, and its height 



