Essay III : Of food, and particularly of feeding the poor.

  • Benjamin Thompson
Date:
[between 1790 and 1799?]
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Credit: Essay III : Of food, and particularly of feeding the poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dry bread. In dumplins. In the foup. dinner, and was eat at twelve o’clock,) each perfon belonging to the mefs was furniftied with a piece of rye-bread, weighing ten loths, and “ which coft t7 of a creutzer.—Each perfon was “ iikewife furnilhed with a piece of this bread, “ weighing ten loths, for his breakiaft;—another “ piece, of equal weight, in the afternoon at four “ o’clockj and another in the evening.” Amlyfts of this Day*s Fare. Each perfon received in the courfe of Amount of coft in the day. Bavarian money. In folids. In fluids. lb. loths. lb. loths. Crtu tiers. Boiled beef 0 5 ,« pRye-bread 0 3t j Sweet herbs 0 Ori I Sale 0 Pepper 0 > O/j- Water m - 0 *3f Total 0 0 23i J rWheaten-bread 0 3l 1 1 Ditto flour 0 1 j Salt 0 t y ,1 ] Water - • 0 7t5 1 1 t Total 0 0 rForbreakfall 0 10 n 1 At dinner 0 10 1 1 In the afternoon 0 10 1 1 At fupper 0 10 > 1 L Total 1 8 1 J General total 2 * 5 0 which coft 0.4 The
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