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On the Construction of Kitchen 



arrangements, some address will be necessary in com- 

 bining them. 



Another point to which the utmost attention must 

 be paid is to avoid all complicated and expensive 

 machinery. Instruments for general use should be 

 as simple as possible ; and such as are destined for the 

 use of those who must earn their daily bread by their 

 labour should be cheap, durable, and not liable to 

 accidents, or to be often in want of repairs. 



As food is more indispensably necessary than a warm 

 room, and as the most common process of cookery is 

 boiling, I shall first show how that process may be per- 

 formed in the most economical manner possible, and 

 shall then point out the means that may be used for 

 rendering the kitchen fire useful in warming the room 

 in which cookery is carried on. 



One of the cheapest utensils- for cooking for a family 

 that ever was contrived is, I verily believe, that used by 

 the itinerant poor families that trade between Bavaria 

 and the Tyrol, bringing raisins, lemons, etc., from the 

 south side of the mountains (which they transport in 

 light carts drawn by themselves) and carrying back 

 earthen-ware. 



As these poor people have no fixed abode, and never 

 stop at an inn or other public-house, but, like the gyp- 

 sies in this country, sleep in empty barns and under 

 the hedges by the road-side, they carry with them in 

 their cart all that they possess ; and among the rest the 

 whole of their kitchen furniture, which consists of one 

 single article, a deep frying pan of hammered iron, 

 with a short iron handle. 



In this they bake their cakes, boil their brown soup, 

 make their hasty pudding, stew their greens, fry their 



