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APPENDIX No. IX. 



An Account of an Experiment made (under the direction of the 

 Author) in the Kitchen of the House of Industry at Dublin, in 

 Cooking for the Poor. 



MAY the 6th, 1796, a dinner was provided for 927 

 persons, of calecannon, a kind of food in great 

 repute in Ireland, composed of potatoes, boiled and 

 mashed, mixed with about one-fifth of their weight of 

 boiled greens, cut fine with sharp shovels, and seasoned 

 with butter, onions, salt, pepper, and ginger. The in- 

 gredients were boiled in a very large iron boiler of a 

 circular or rather hemispherical form, capable of con- 

 taining near 400 gallons, and remarkably thick and 

 heavy. 273 gallons of pump water were put into this 

 boiler; and the following table will show in a satis- 

 factory manner the progress and the result of the 

 experiment : 



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