 | United States. Bureau of Manufactures - Consular reports - 1884 - 900 pages
...supped with half a pint of milk, or tea, or coffee, and bread and butter, with perhaps either an egg, a bit of bacon, or a herring. Dinner is frequently Scotch broth, cooked with cabbage, other vegetables, and beef; from 4 to 6 ounces of the latter is what falls to the share of the heads... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1884 - 828 pages
...with half a pint of milk or tea or coffee and bread and butter, with perhaps either an egg, a bit ot of bacon, or a herring. Dinner is frequently Scotch broth, cooked with cabbage, other vegetables, and beef; from 4 to 6 ounces of the latter is what falls to the share of the heads... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1885 - 934 pages
...center, writes Consul Wells, is simple and homely : breakfast, porridge and niilk, or tea or coffee and bread and butter, with perhaps an egg, a small bit...herring; dinner is frequently Scotch broth, cooked with cnbbage or other vegetables, and beef in small quantities; supper, tea, with bread and butter. Mill... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce - Cost and standard of living - 1885 - 882 pages
...and supped with half a pint of milk, or tea-, or coflee, and bread and butter, with, perhaps, either an egg, a small bit of bacon, or a herring. Dinner is frequently Scotch broth cooked with cabbage; other vegetables and beef, from 3 to о ounces of the latter, is what falls to the share of the head... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Labor - 1885 - 894 pages
...and supped with half a pint of milk, or tea, or coffee, and bread and butter, with, perhaps, either an egg, a small bit of bacon, or a herring. Dinner is frequently Scotch broth cooked with cabbage; other vegetables and beef, from 3 to 6 ounces of the latter, is what falls to the share of the head... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1885 - 894 pages
...and supped with half a pint of milk, or tea, or coffee, and bread and butter, with, perhaps, either an egg, a small bit of bacon, or a herring. Dinner is frequently Scotch broth cooked with cabbage; other vegetables and beef, from 3 to 6 ounces of the latter, is what falls to the share of the head... | |
 | William Addison Phillips - Agricultural laborers - 1886 - 508 pages
...— porridge and milk, or tea or coffee with bread and butter and perhaps eggs, small bit of bacon or herring. Dinner, — is frequently Scotch broth cooked...their wages being insufficient to procure them the fare here specified." J The consul says : " The working classes in Dundee are poorly provided for in... | |
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The food of the working classes is simple and homely, consisting of, it is understood, for breakfast porridge made with half a pound of oatmeal and supped with half a pint of milk, or tea, or coffee, and bread and butter, with perhaps either an egg, a... 