FOOD AND CLOTHING. 71 



NORTHUMBERLAND. 



The following refers to the north of this county 

 Breakfast. Bread, butter, cheese, bacon, tea. Dinner. Broth, 

 bacon or cold beef, potatoes, cabbage or turnips, suet or currant 

 dumpling, rice or bread -pudding (on Sundays, roast beef , dumpling 

 or rhubarb tart, when rhubarb is in season, fresh). Tea. Bread, 

 butter, cheese or jam, tea. Supper. Coffee, bread and cheese. 

 Notes. Most men kill either two or three pigs in the year, 

 average weight 20 stones each. They all have gardens. They 

 do not belong to benefit societies or clubs. 



NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Cold boiled bacon, bread, tea, milk. Dinner. 

 Cold beef or mutton the first part of the week. The rest of the 

 week hot boiled bacon ; also potatoes, and flour or milk puddings 

 (Sundays, hot beef or mutton, puddings). Tea. Bread, butter, 

 jam, tea, dripping toast. Supper. Bread and cheese. Note. 

 All the labourers in this district have gardens or allotments, 

 and about half the men keep pigs. The majority of the men 

 belong to benefit societies and coal and clothing clubs. 



OXFORDSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Tea, coffee, bread ; sometimes bacon. Dinner. 

 Boiled bacon, vegetables, tea ; sometimes a glass of beer 

 (Sundays, butchers' meat, currant or jam pudding). Tea. 

 Bread and butter, tea ; sometimes cocoa or coffee. Supper. 

 Bread, cheese, perhaps a glass of beer (on Sundays, some fresh 

 meat). Note. Most of the men keep pigs. All have gardens 

 or allotments many have both. Nearly all the men belong to 

 benefit societies, and some to coal and clothing clubs. 



SOMERSETSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Tea and toast ; or, it may be, fried bacon or milk, 

 broth, or bread and butter, and tea (on Sundays, roast beef or 

 mutton, and pudding ; or fish or eggs). Dinner. Potatoes, 

 rice or suet pudding, and bacon ; fresh meat over from Sundays 

 on Monday (Sundays, roast beef or mutton, and pudding ; 

 or, it may be, milk pudding with fresh meat). Sometimes for 

 the weekday dinner butchers' meat is bought and eaten, if it 

 can be afforded, instead of bacon, and with either potatoes or 

 other vegetables. Tea. Bread, butter, tea, or, it may be, 

 bread and dripping, or bread and jam (cake is added on Sundays). 

 Supper. Bacon or ham and vegetables, or alternatively bread 

 and cheese, and beer or cider. Notes. Many of the men keep 

 pigs, and also have gardens and allotments. They frequently 

 belong to coal and clothing clubs, but not to benefit societies, 

 except in some instances, and the women also belong to clothing 

 clubs. Sometimes a coal club will provide a family with coal 

 at a discount of twopence in the shilling. 



