Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    autumn, wlren others are pale and shed them, besides its manifold usefulness for all kinds of carpenter’s and turner’s work, til allehanda snickare-och svarfvare arbeten. The 28th June, 1748. Bröd. The bread which here in England was every- where and exclusively used, at least where I travelled, was large loaves, limpor, baked of wheat-flour, hvete- mjöl. Other bread is next to never eaten. Most Englishmen had scarcely heard tell of rye-bread, hört talas om råg-bröd ; few had seen it, and still fewer were those who had eaten it. Many also did not [T. I. p. 475] know, that anyone was in the habit of baking bread of rye, but they thought that it was only used as food for cattle. This ought all to be understood of those who lived in London and the provinces immediately round ; for several told me that in the north of England it is common enough to bake bread of rye-meal. Like- wise that there are large tracts in the north where most of the people mostly live on Haver-bread, Hafre-bröd, [oatmeal cakes.*] In London they sometimes, at break- fast, til-frukost, eat with butter, while they drink tea, a kind of thin, small, round cakes, which are snow-white, taste very nice, and are said to be made of the finest Haver-meal. But still wheat-loaves are the principal sort. [T. I. p. 186.] The 25th March, 1748. A great Fire in London. To d:vv there happened the great conflagration in London in which over 100 houses near the Royal Ex- change were burned down. It was generally considered that there had not been so large a fire in London since * See Lucas’ Studies in Nidderdale IV1872, 8vo.
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