430 Of Food. . 



This surplus is commonly employed in purchasing 

 beer, brandy, tobacco, etc. Beer in Bavaria costs two 

 kreutzers a pint; brandy, or rather malt-spirits, from 

 fifteen to eighteen kreutzers ; and tobacco is very 

 cheap. 



To enable the English reader to form, without the 

 trouble of computation, a complete and satisfactory 

 idea of the manner in which these Bavarian soldiers 

 are fed, I have added the following analysis of their 

 fare, in which the quantity of each article is expressed 

 in avoirdupois weight, and its cost in English money. 



Analysis. 



Each person belonging to the mess received in the course Cost in 



of the day, June n, 1795 : English money. 



Ibs. oz. s. d. 



Dry ammunition bread .......... I 8^/fr o o| 



Ammunition bread cooked in the soup . . . . o 2^ o o-^g 3 ^ 



Fine wheaten (semmel) bread in the dumplings . o zfo o o^ 



Total bread . . . . 



Fine flour in the dumplings ........ o i^g- o 



Boiled beef ............. o 3^ o 



In seasoning, fine herbs, salt, and pepper . . o o^ o 



Total solids .... 



Water prepared by cooking 5 Jn the soup . . , 

 ( In the dumplings 



Total prepared water . . 

 Total solids and fluids . . 



Total expense for each person 5JJ kreutzers, equal 

 to twopence sterling, very nearly. 



But, as the Bavarian soldiers have not the same fare 

 every day, the expenses of their tables cannot be ascer- 

 tained from one single experiment. I shall therefore 

 return to Serjeant Wickenhofs report. 



