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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![clean, if he would be at peace with them in other things. Hence it is that outside every door there stands a fixed iron, on which the men scrape the mould, and other dirt off their shoes before they step in. The women leave in the passage their pattins, that is, a kind of wooden shoes which stand on a high iron ring. Into these wooden shoes they thrust their ordinary leather, or stuff, shoes (when they go out) and so g o by that means quite free from all dirt into the room. In the hall or passage, and after- wards at every door, though there were ever so many one within the other, there lies a mat, matta, täcke, or some- thing else, to still more carefully rub the soil off the shoes, so that it is never, in short, sufficiently rubbed off. [T. I. p. 170.] The 19tli March, 1748. Frukost, Breakfast, which here in England was almost everywhere partaken of by those more comfortably off, consisted in drinking Tea, but not as we do in Sweden, when we take a quantity of hot water on an empty stomach, without anything else to it, but the English fashion was somewhat more natural, for they ate at the same time one or more slices of wheat-bread, which they had first toasted at the fire, half-stekt vid Elden, and when it was very hot, had spread butter on it, and then placed it a little way from the fire on the hearth, so that the butter might melt well into the bread. In the summer they do not toast the bread, but only spread the butter on it before they eat it. The cold rooms here in England in the winter, and because the butter is then hard from the cold, and does not so easily admit of being spread on the bread, have perhaps given them the idea to thus toast the bread, and then spread the butter on it while it is still hot. Most people pour a little cream or sweet milk into the teacup, brukas, at slå litet grädda eller söt mjölk i Tliee-kuppen,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24857026_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
