MAIN FOOD SUPPLIES 



Food-supplies for the Shore-party for Two Years 



6720 lb. Colman's wheaten flour. 

 6000 lb. various tinned meats. 

 600 lb. ox and lunch tongues. 



800 lb. roast and boiled fowl, roast turkey, curried fowl, chicken 

 and ham pate, &c. 



1000 lb. York hams. 

 1400 lb. Wiltshire bacon. 

 1400 lb. Danish butter. 

 1000 lb. milk. 



1000 lb. " Glaxo " milk powder. 



1700 lb. lard, beef suet and beef marrow. 



1000 lb. moist sugar. 



700 lb. Demerara sugar. 



500 lb. granulated sugar. 



260 lb. lump sugar. 



2600 lb. assorted tinned fish: haddocks, herrings, pilchards, salmon, 

 sardines, mackerel, lobster, whitebait, mullet. 

 500 lb. Rowntree's elect cocoa. 

 350 lb. Lipton's tea. 

 1000 lb. cheese, mainly Cheddar. 

 70 lb. coffee. 



1900 lb. assorted jams and marmalade. 

 336 lb. golden syrup. 



3600 lb. cereals such as oatmeal, quaker oats, rice, barley, tapioca, 

 sago, semolina, cornflour, petit pois, haricots verts, marrow-fat peas, 

 split peas, lentils, dried haricot beans. 



3400 lb. assorted soups in tins. 



660 lb. assorted fruits: apricots, pears and pine-apple chunks. 

 1150 bottles bottled fruit. 



1000 lb. dried fruit: prunes, peaches, apricots, raisins, sultanas, 

 currants, apples. 

 500 lb. salt. 



80 doz. assorted pickles, relishes, chutneys, sauces, &c, &c. 

 120 lb. plum puddings. 



2800 lb. assorted dried vegetables (equivalent to about 30,000 lb. 

 of fresh vegetables) : potatoes, cabbage, carrots, oinions, Brussels- 

 sprouts, cauliflower, celery, spinach, Scotch kale, parsnips, parsley, 

 mint, rhubarb, mushrooms, beetroot, artichokes. 



1000 lb. pemmican (best beef with 60 per cent, of fat added). 

 The best pemmican was that supplied by J. D. Beauvais, of Copen- 

 hagen. 



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