414 Of Food. 



*. J 

 Brought over ............ i 1 1 1 1 



Wages of three cook-maids, at twenty florins (37^. 7\d.) 



a year each, makes daily ........... 003! 



Daily expense for feeding the three cook-maids, at ten 

 kreutzers (3| pence sterling) each, according to an agree- 

 ment made with them ............. oon 



Daily wages of two men servants, employed in going to 

 market, collecting donations of bread, etc., helping in 

 the kitchen, and assisting in serving out the soup to 

 the poor ..... ........... . 017^ 



Repairs of the kitchen and of the kitchen furniture, about 



90 florins (8/. 3-r. yd. sterling) a year, makes daily ... 005^ 



Total daily expenses, when dinner is provided for 1200 



persons .................. i 15 2^ 



This sum (i/. 15^. 2\ d.} divided by 1200, the num- 

 ber of portions of soup furnished, gives for each por- 

 tion a mere trifle more than one third of a penny, or 

 exactly iVo 2 <r of a penny, the weight of each portion 

 being about 20 ounces. 



But, moderate as these expenses are which have 

 attended the feeding of the poor of Munich, they 

 have lately been reduced still farther by introducing 

 the use of potatoes. These most valuable vegetables 

 were hardly known in Bavaria till very lately; and so 

 strong was the aversion of the public, and particularly 

 of the poor, against them, at the time when we began 

 to make use of them in the public kitchen of the 

 House of Industry in Munich, that we were absolutely 

 obliged, at first, to introduce them by stealth. A pri- 

 vate room in a retired corner was fitted up as a kitchen 

 for cooking them ; and it was necessary to disguise 

 them by boiling them down entirely, and destroying 

 their form and texture, to prevent their being detected. 

 But the poor soon found that their soup was improved 



