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 ------------- 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 0 1/2 -- 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 ----------- Total L. 12 13 5
The same number of Women and Children as on Saturday, and cost the same: viz. 19s 11d.
N.B. All these accounts are in avoirdupois weight, and Irish money.
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 26 1/2 the Greens 40m 1 26 1/2 and Potatoes 9h 0m 1 26 1/2 15m 2 53 80 30m 1 26 1/2 90 45m 2 53 110 10h 0m 1 26 1/2 150 20m 212 The Greens were now put 295 1/2 in. 2m 180 30m 1 26 1/2 190 45m 212 11h the Greens taken out and 1615 Potatoes put in. 11h 10m 2 53 180 20m 1 26 1/2 200 30m 212 45m Potatoes done.