22 Of the Management of Fire 



weight, or about f, or more exactly fa of a cord or 

 klafter, which cost 43 kreutzers (60 kreutzers making a 

 florin), or about is. ^\d. sterling; and this gives fa of 

 a kreutzer, or ^V of a farthing, for the daily expense for 

 fuel in cooking for each person. 



To make an estimate of the daily expense for fuel 

 in cooking the same quantity of the same kind of soup 

 in private kitchens, we will suppose these 1000 per- 

 sons, who were fed from the public kitchen of the 

 House of Industry, to be separated into families of 5 

 persons each. 



This would make just 200 families ; and the quantity 

 of wood consumed in the public kitchen daily for feed- 

 ing 1000 persons (= 300 Ibs.), being divided among 

 200 families, gives li Ibs. of wood for the daily con- 

 sumption of each family; and, according to tfeis esti- . 

 mate, i cord of wood, weighing 2200 Ibs., ought to 

 suffice for cooking for such a family 1466 days, or 4 

 years and 6 days. 



But upon the most careful inquiries relative to the 

 real consumption of fuel in private families in opera- 

 tions of cookery, as they are now generally performed 

 over an open fire, I find that 5 Bavarian pounds of good 

 peas-soup can hardly be prepared at a less expense of 

 fuel than 1 5 Ibs. of dry beech-wood of the best quality ; 

 consequently, a cord of such wood, instead of sufficing 

 for preparing a soup daily for a family of 5 persons for 

 4 years, would hardly suffice for so long a time as 5 

 months. 



And hence it appears that the consumption of fuel 

 in the kitchens of private families is to that consumed 

 in the first kitchen of the House of Industry at Munich, 

 in preparing the same quantity of the same kind of food 



