The fuel used was Whitehaven coal: the quantity 17 pecks, weighing 450 1/2 lbs.

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, 1/2 lbs. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0 1 3 Salt, 40 lbs. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0 1 1 Pepper, 1 lb. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0 1 1 --------- L. 7 16 9

Expence for fuel, 17 pecks of coal, at 1L. 3s. 3d. per ton, -- -- -- -- -- 0 3 2 1/2 ------------- Total L. 7 19 11 1/2

With this kind of food there is no allowance of bread, nor is any necessary.

It would be hardly possible to invent a more nourishing or more palatable kind of food, than Calecannon, as it is made in Ireland; but the expence of it might be considerably diminished, by using less butter in preparing it.