Fortieth annual report of the Trustees of the Northampton Lunatic Hospital, for the year ending September 30, 1895.

  • Northampton Lunatic Hospital
Date:
1896
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Credit: Fortieth annual report of the Trustees of the Northampton Lunatic Hospital, for the year ending September 30, 1895. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DIETARY OF THE NORTHAMPTON LUNATIC HOSPITAL. [There are two bills of fare, the first of which is supplied to the tables of about two hundred persons, and the second to those of somewhat over three hundred.] BILL OF FARE No. 1. Breakfast. Monday. — Tea, coffee, broiled beefsteak, potatoes, warm rolls (“biscuit”), bread and butter. Tuesday. — Tea, coffee, fried tripe,* potatoes, warm rolls, bread and butter. Wednesday. — Tea, coffee, broiled beefsteak, potatoes and warm brown (rye and Indian) bread. Thursday. — Tea, coffee, broiled beefsteak, potatoes, warm rolls, bread and butter. Friday. —Tea, coffee, fried tripe,* potatoes, warm rolls, bread and butter. Saturday. — Tea, coffee, either fried fish-balls or liver, meat hash, hot corn cake, bread and butter. Sunday. — Tea, coffee, cold corned beef, potatoes, warm rolls, bread, butter and fried Indian corn pudding. Dinner. Monday.—Roast be^f, potatoes and one other vegetable, bread, butter,, boiled rice with syrup or sugar. Tuesday. — Vegetable soup, roast or stewed veal,f potatoes and one other vegetable, bread, butter and baked Indian pudding. Wednesday. — Either fried or baked fresh fish or boiled mutton, potatoes and one other vegetable, bread, butter and berry or apple pudding,, with sauce.f Thursday. — Vegetable soup, corned beef, potatoes and one other vegetable,, bread, butter and boiled suet pudding with syrup. * Tripe is replaced in winter by sausages, and in spring by fried ham and eggs, except in the season of shad, when that fish is given once each week instead of ham and eggs‘ and once instead of beefsteak, t Substituted in winter by fresh pork ribs, roasted. X In spring, maple syrup is used as sauce for puddings.