There was also a machine for kneading the dough
for making bread.
In fact, the whole place was a marvel of work and organisation all
compressed into a very small space, and yet done most successfully and
cleanly.
* * * * *
A GOOD DINNER.
Here is one day's bill of fare for the third-class passengers, which
shows that they do not fare badly. I had some of it myself, and it was
excellent.
BREAKFAST
Porridge with Milk
Yarmouth Bloaters
Hashed Meat
Cold Corned Pork
Bread
Butter
Jam
Marmalade Tea
Coffee
Cocoa
DINNER
Mulligatawny Soup
Roast Mutton
Potatoes
Mashed Pumpkin
Suet Pudding with Syrup
Children--Milk Pudding Bread
Cheese
Biscuits
TEA
Lancashire Hot-Pot
Cold Meat Salad
Pickles Bread
Butter Jam
Marmalade Currant Cake
SUPPER
Bread
Butter
Cocoa
Biscuits and Cheese
Gruel for Infants if required
Cocoa or Coffee with Biscuits at 6.30 a.m.
* * * * *
AN ECHO OF THE ZULU WAR.
Of two of the cooks with whom I talked, one had been twenty-three
years in the service of the Orient Company and the other twenty-six
years: and nearly all the ship's company had been in this ship four
years, though their engagement only lasts for one voyage.
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