Dry ammunition bread furnished to each person 1 lb. 8 loths, which cost 2 1/2 creutzers.
Recapitulation.
Each person belonging to the mess received this day:
lb. loths. Creutzers. 0 4 1/2 of boiled beef, and ] … 1 31/48 1 8 of bread soup ] 0 18 2/3 of bread dumplins … … 1 7/12 1 8 of dry bread … … … 2 1/2 ————- ———- 3 7 1/6 of Food Cost 5 35/42 creutzers
In Avoirdupois weight, and English money, it is,
lb. oz.
0 2.78 of boiled beef, and ] … 0 948/1584
1 8.76 of bread soup ]
0 11.54 of bread dumplins … … 0 228/396
1 8.76 of dry bread … … … 0 10/11
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4 0 of Food Cost 2 1/12 pence.
June 22d, 1795.
Bill of Fare.
Bread soup and meat dumplins.
Details of expenses, etc.
lb. loths.
2 0 of beef … … … 15
2 30 of semel bread … 15 1/2
0 18 of fine flour … … 3
0 1 of pepper … … 1
0 12 of salt … … … 1
0 2 of sweet herbs … 0 1/2
2 24 of ammunition bread 3 1/4
2 16 of water to the dumplins
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Cost 39 1/4 creutzers.
The meat being cut fine, or minced, was mixed with the semel or wheaten bread; and these with the flour, and a due proportion of salt, were made into dumplins, and boiled in the soup.—These dumplins when boiled, weighed 10 lb. which, divided into 12 equal portions, gave 20 2/3 loths for each.
The soup weighed 15 lb. which gave 1 lb. 8 loths for each portion. —Of dry ammunition bread, each person received 1 lb. 8 loths, which cost 2 1/2 creutzers.