FOOD OF WELSH PEASANTS. 89 



the skim milk and " wash," fattened with meal, and killed and 

 salted, the bacon being kept for the family consumption. Very 

 little fresh meat is consumed by the family of a Welsh farm- 

 labourer. The men do not generally belong to benefit societies 

 or clubs. 



DENBIGHSHIRE AND FLINTSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Bacon, bread, butter, and tea. The children 

 have bread and milk, or porridge. Dinner. Any meat left 

 from the Sunday dinner is made to last as long as possible, 

 supplemented by potatoes, vegetables, and bacon (on Sundays, 

 a small joint of beef or mutton with vegetables and pudding). 

 Tea. Tea, bread and butter, jam or syrup, cheese (on Sundays, 

 cake). Supper. Bread and butter, cheese, " browis " (scalded 

 bread, with a small piece of butter or dripping, and pepper and 

 salt " to taste " as the cookery books say), coffee and cocoa, 

 and white bread. This " browis " a curious name is appar- 

 ently a near relation to the " tea-kettle " broth of the Devon 

 and Somerset peasant. A bit of bacon, however, is the flavour- 

 ing " factor " of the last-mentioned broth ; but very frequently 

 it simply " reeks," so to speak, of the kettle, and there is not 

 even a souppon, as the French phrase it, of any fatty matter. 

 Pepper and salt are cheap beyond the dreams of frugality, but 

 they cannot add much " taste " to water. Note. Nearly all 

 the men keep pigs, and all the cottages have gardens in which 

 potatoes are chiefly grown. The men usually belong to benefit 

 societies to provide against sickness, and many of them, includ- 

 ing children, are insured. The wives and children nearly 

 always belong to clothing and coal clubs. 



MERIONETHSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Broth or bread and milk, bread, butter, or cheese. 

 Dinner. Bacon or beef, potatoes (on Sundays, pudding in 

 addition). Tea. Bread and milk, or gruel, tea. Supper. 

 Porridge or broth. Note. There are not many married men 

 employed as farm labourers in this district, as most of them 

 are engaged in mining and quarrying. In some cases the married 

 farm labourers keep pigs. There are no coal or clothing clubs, 

 but one or two chapels in the district have clubs connected with 

 them. 



PEMBROKESHIRE. 



Breakfast. Tea or coffee, bread, butter, cheese, or bacon. 

 Dinner. Bacon broth, bacon, occasionally beef or mutton ; 

 potatoes, cottage and wheaten bread (on Sundays, same as 

 weekdays, but often rice pudding and occasionally a fowl). 

 Tea. Tea, wheaten bread, butter, cheese, or syrup. Supper. 

 Wheaten bread, butter, cheese, milk, tea or coffee. Note. All 

 the men keep pigs and rear a large number of fowls. Allot- 

 ments can easily be obtained, but few labourers want them. 

 In most cases the farmers allow the labourers to grow sufficient 



