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who distributed it being obliged to produce them as 

 vouchers of the quantity given out each day. 



Those who had received these portions of bread 

 held them up in their hands upon their coming into 

 the dining-hall, as a sign that they had a right to seat 

 themselves at the tables ; and as many portions of 

 bread as they produced, so many portions of soup 

 they were entitled to receive, and those portions which 

 they did not eat they were allowed to carry away, so 

 that the delivery of bread was a check upon the de- 

 livery of soup, and vice versa. 



The kitchen was fitted up with all possible atten- 

 tion as well to convenience as to the economy of fuel. 

 This will readily be believed by those who are in- 

 formed that the whole work of the kitchen is per- 

 formed with great ease by three cook-maids, and that 

 the daily expense for firewood amounts to no more 

 than twelve kreutzers, or fourpence halfpenny sterling, 

 when dinner is provided for 1000 people. The num- 

 ber of persons who are fed daily from this kitchen is, 

 at a medium, in summer about one thousand (rather 

 more than less) and in winter about 1200. Frequently, 

 however, there have been more than 1500 at table. 



As a particular account of this kitchen, with drawings, 

 together with an account of a number of new and very 

 interesting experiments relative to the economy of fuel, 

 will be annexed to this work, I shall add nothing more 

 now upon the subject, except it be the certificate, 

 which may be seen in the Appendix No. IV., which I 

 have thought prudent to publish, in order to prevent 

 my being suspected of exaggeration in displaying the 

 advantages of my economical arrangements. 



The assertion that a warm dinner may be cooked for 



