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tea (Sundays, cake). Supper. Bacon, pudding, vegetables, 

 cheese, tea or milk. Notes. In some cases both tea and supper 

 are not taken, but the meal is eaten about 6.30 p.m. If the man 

 takes his dinner in the fields with him, the meal in the evening 

 is usually a hot one. Most of the men keep pigs, and have good 

 gardens and allotments. They also belong to clubs. 



NORFOLK. 



Breakfast. Bread and butter or dripping ; sometimes pork 

 (salted). Children have bread, jam, treacle, and in some cases 

 oatmeal. Dinner. Norfolk dumplings or pork, or sometimes 

 meat left over from Sundays ; sometimes stewed bones to make 

 gravy ; potatoes, bread, cheese, sometimes currant dumplings 

 (Sundays, beef or pork, fruit pies or jam tarts). Tea and Supper. 

 Bread and butter, or dripping, jam, tea; sometimes cake 

 (Sundays, some men have tinned beef or tinned salmon). 

 Another account of the dietary of the Norfolk peasant is as 

 follows : Breakfast. Bread, milk, butter or cheese, margarine, 

 lard, onions, perhaps herrings or salt pork, baked apples, treacle, 

 jam. Dinner. Light dumplings, vegetables, and gravy out 

 of pork diluted with water, pea soup, small piece of bacon or 

 fat pork, perhaps some dumplings or pigs' fry, bread (Sundays, 

 pork or butchers' meat). Tea and Supper. Bread, butter or 

 jam, cheese, onions, or apples, bread, cake with currants, tea, 

 sometimes herrings. Notes. A good many men have good 

 gardens ; on the other hand, some of the gardens are small. 

 Allotments are said to be getting into the hands of small trades- 

 men and mechanics rather than farm labourers. Many of the 

 farm labourers belong to benefit societies. Some men keep 

 pigs, but it is not a general practice. The thriftless do not get 

 sufficient money in hand to raise a pig or two. Many farmers 

 object to their servants keeping either pigs or fowls, particularly 

 if they have care of their employers' horses, pigs, etc. In most 

 cases the men have good gardens. Allotments are in a parish 

 here and there. Where there are large gardens, men do not, as 

 a rule, seek allotments. Nearly all the men belong to benefit 

 societies. The youths enter as soon as eligible. There are very 

 few coal or clothing clubs. Many pay for clothes by instalments. 



NORTHAMPTON. 



Before going to work the men have tea, and bread and butter. 

 Then they have for so-called Breakfast, bread, cheese, and tea. 

 Dinner. Pork and pudding (Sundays, beef and Yorkshire 

 pudding), and in both instances, vegetables of some sort, no 

 doubt, although the Board of Trade report does not mention 

 vegetables. Tea. Bread, jam, tea. Supper. If supper is 

 taken, bread and cheese. Note. Most of the men have gardens 

 or allotments, and keep pigs. They usually belong to benefit 

 societies and clubs. 



