Essay III : Of food, and particularly of feeding the poor.

  • Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814.
Date:
[between 1790 and 1799?]
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Credit: Essay III : Of food, and particularly of feeding the poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m nionq's CONTENTS O F T H E ■ »’» « THIRD ET Sr SAY. Introduction. - Page 191 C H A P. I. Great Lnporianee of the Subjed under Conjtdcration. ’^Probability that Water adls a much more im- portant Part in Nutrition than has hitherto been generally imagined.—Surprijingly fmall ^aniity of foHd Food nccefj'ary, when properly prepared^ for all the Purpofes of Nutrition.—Great Im^ portance of the Art of Cookery.—Barley remark- ably nutritive •when properly prepared.—The Im- portance of culinary Proceffes for preparing Food jhewn from the known Utility of a PraFlice com- mon in fome Parts of Germany of cooking for Cattle.—Difficulty of introducing a Change of Cookery into common Ufc.— Means that maybe em- floyed for that Purpofe. . - 19^ c C^H A P.