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Potatoes, per bushel weighing 58^ Ibs. at 2s. 6d., which 

 gives nearly one halfpenny for each pound. 



And I find that a quartern loaf of wheaten bread 

 weighing 4 Ibs. 5 oz. costs now in London ,15-. Q\d. 

 This bread must therefore be reckoned at i iff farthings 

 per pound. 



Salt costs \\d. per pound; and vinegar (which is 

 probably six times as strong as that stuff called vinegar 

 which is used in the kitchen of the House of Industry 

 at Munich) costs is. &d. per gallon. 



This being premised, the computations may be made 

 as follows : 



Expense of preparing in London, in the month of November, 1795, 

 1 200 portions of the Soup No. I. 



Ibs. oz. j. </. s. d. 



141 2 pearl barley, at o 2 per Ib 1126 



131 4 peas, at .... o i^ o 16 4 



69 10 wheaten bread, at o n|-| o 16 6 



19 13 salt, at .... o 4 2 5i 



Vinegar, one gallon, at . i 8 o i 8 



Expenses for fuel, servants, kitchen furniture, etc., reckoning 

 three times as much as those articles of expense amount to 

 daily at Munich 0104^ 



Total 3 9 9 f 



Which sum (3/. gs. 9!^.) divided by 1 200, the number 

 of portions of soup, gives z-^ffa farthings, or nearly 

 2| farthings for each portion. 

 For the soup No. II. it will be : 



Ibs. oz. s. d. s. d. 



70 9 pearl barley, at o 2 per Ib 0119 



65 10 peas, at ... o i^ o 82 



230 4 potatoes, at .00^- o 13 9 



69 10 bread, at. . . o n|| o 16 6 



19 13 salt, at ... 6 z i 2 5i 



Vinegar, one gallon o 18 



Expenses for fuel, servants, etc o 10 4} 



Total 3 4 7| 



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