Of Food. 4 1 3 



CHAPTER III. 



Of the different Kinds of Food furjiisked to the Poor 

 in the House of Industry at Munich, with an 

 Account of the Cost of them. — Of the Expense of 

 providing the same Kinds of Food in Great Britain, 

 as well at the present high Prices of Provisions as 

 at the ordinary Prices of them. — Of the various 

 Improvements of which these different Kinds of 

 cheap Food are capable. 



BEFORE the introduction of potatoes as food in 

 the House of Industry at Munich (which was 

 not done till last August), the poor were fed with a soup 

 composed in the following manner: — 



Soup No. I. 



Weight Cost in 



Ingredients. avoirdupois, sterling money. 



lbs. oz. ^ s. d. 



4 viertels * of pearl barley, equal to about 2oJ gal- 

 lons 141 2 o 1 1 7I 



4 viertels of peas 131 4 o 7 3|- 



Cuttings of fine wheaten bread 69 10 o 10 2^ 



Salt 19 13 012^ 



24 maasse very weak beer, vinegar, or rather 



small beer turned sour, about 24 quarts ... 46 13 o i Si 



Water, about 560 quarts 1077 o 



Fuel, 88 lbs. of dry pine-wood, the Bavarian klafter 

 (weighing 3961 lbs. avoirdupois) at Zs. 2^ d. ster- 

 ling t 002^ 



1485 10 I II 11^ 



* A viertel is the twelfth part of a schaffel, and the Bavarian schaffel is equal 

 to 6^'Llg. Winchester bushels. 



t The quantity of fuel here mentioned, though it certainly is almost incred- 

 ibly small, was nevertheless determined from the results of actual experiments. 

 A particular account of these experiments will be given in my Essay on the 

 Management of Heat and the Economy of Fuel. 



