on Cooking for the Poor. 541 



itoofij of a pound of pine-wood to each pound of rye- 

 bread, which is about 1 3$ Ibs. of bread to each pound 

 of wood. 



But we have seen, from the results of the before- 

 mentioned experiments, that when the bread was baked 

 under circumstances the most favourable to the economy 

 of fuel, no less than 80 Ibs. of pine-wood were employed 

 in heating the oven to bake 304 Ibs. of bread, which 

 gives less than 4 Ibs. of bread to each pound of wood. 

 Consequently, two thirds at least of the heat generated 

 in the combustion of the fuel must, in that case, have 

 been lost ; and in all the other experiments the loss of 

 heat appears to have been still much greater. 



A considerable loss of heat in baking will always be 

 inevitable ; but it seems probable that this loss might, 

 with proper attention to the construction of the oven, 

 and to the management of the fire, be reduced at least 

 to one half the quantity generated from the fuel in its 

 combustion. In the manner in which the baking busi- 

 ness is now generally carried on, much more than three 

 quarters of the heat generated, or which might be gen- 

 erated, from the fuel consumed, is lost. 



APPENDIX No. VIII. 



THE following account of the persons in the House 

 of Industry in Dublin, the 3Oth of April, 1796, 

 and of the details of the manner and expense of feeding 

 them, was given to the author, by order of the Gov- 

 ernors of that Institution. 



