1216 Persons fed at Dinner. -- CALECANNON and BEER.

 Cost.
Weight of raw potatoes Cwt. qrs. lbs.
L. s. d.
for Calecannon, -- -- 19 0 0 -- 3 6 6
An allowance for waste, 1 0 0
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Weight used, 18 0
0 --
Raw greens for ditto, -- 8 0 0 -- 1 6 0
Butter for ditto, -- -- 1 0 0 -- 3 12 0
Pepper for ditto, -- -- 0 0 0½ --
0 1 1
Ginger for ditto, -- -- 0 0 1 -- 0 1 3
Onions for ditto, -- -- 0 0 14 -- 0 2 0
Salt for ditto, -- -- 0 0 24 --
0 0 8
Fuel, 4 bushels 2 pecks, -- 0 3 4
Time of boiling about four hours.
1193 Persons get 1 }
pint of
beer Galls. p. } Barrs.
each, making 149 1 }Galls. Galls.
23 On the breast } 151 is 3 31 2 5 3
---- get
no beer. }
1216 }
Allowed for }
waste, -- 1 7 }
Bread to Incurables and Children on the
breast, 43 loaves, -- -- -- -- -- -- --
1 15 4
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Total £ 12 13 5

N.B. All these accounts are in avoirdupois weight, and Irish money.

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APPENDIX, No IX.

An Account of an EXPERIMENT made (under the Direction of the AUTHOR) in the Kitchen of the HOUSE of INDUSTRY at DUBLIN, in COOKING for the POOR.

May the 6th, 1796, a dinner was provided for 927 persons of Calecannon, a kind of food in great repute in Ireland, composed of Potatoes, boiled and mashed, mixed with about one-fifth of their weight of boiled Greens, cut fine with sharp shovels, and seasoned with butter, onions, salt, pepper, and ginger. The ingredients were boiled in a very large iron boiler, of a circular, or rather hemispherical form, capable of containing near 400 gallons, and remarkably thick and heavy. 273 gallons of pump water were put into this boiler; and the following Table will show, in a satisfactory manner, the progress and the result of the experiment:

Heat Contents of the Boiler
Fuel laid of the
Time. on Coals. Liquid Quantity
Pecks Weight
Ingredients. Gall. lbs.
7h 48m 4 106 lb. 55 Water to boil 273
8h 15m 1 26½ the Greens
40m 1 26½ and
Potatoes
9h 0m 1 26½
15m 2 53 80
30m 1 26½ 90
45m 2 53 110
10h 0m 1 26½ 150
20m 212 The Greens
were now put 295 ½
in.
2m 180
30m 1 26½ 190
45m 212
11h the Greens
taken out and 1615
Potatoes put
in.
11h 10m 2 53 180
20m 1 26½ 200
30m 212
45m Potatoes done.

GENERAL RESULTS of the EXPERIMENT.

The fuel used was Whitehaven coal: the quantity 17 pecks, weighing 450½lbs.

The potatoes being mashed, (without peeling them,) and the greens chopped fine with a sharp shovel, they were mixed together, and 98 lbs. of butter, 14 lbs. of onions boiled and chopped fine, 40 lbs. of salt, 1 lb. of black pepper in powder, and 1/2 lb. of ginger, being added, and the whole well mixed together, this food was served out in portions of 1 quart, or about 2 lbs. each, in wooden noggins, holding each 1 quart when full.

Each of these portions of Calecannon (as this food is called in Ireland) served one person for dinner and supper; and each portion cost about 2 1/14 pence, Irish money, or it cost something less than one penny sterling per pound.

Twelve pence sterling, make thirteen pence Irish.

The expence (reckoned in Irish money) of preparing
this food, was as follows: viz.
L. s. d.
Potatoes, 19 cwt. at 3s. 6d. per cwt. -- -- 3 6 6
(N.B. They weighed
no more than 1615 lbs.
when picked and washed.)
Greens, 26 flaskets, at 10d. each, -- -- -- 1 1 10
Butter, 98 lbs. at 72s. per cwt. -- -- -- 3 3 0
Onions, 14 lbs. at 2s. per stone, -- -- -- 0 2 0
Ginger,½lbs. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
0 1 3
Salt, 40 lbs. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0 1 1
Pepper, 1 lb. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0 1 1
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£ 7 16
9
Expence for fuel, 17 pecks of coal,
at 1L. 3s. 3d. per ton, -- -- -- -- -- 0 3 2 1/2
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Total £ 7 19
11 1/2