The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-03 00:00:00

M. SOS ER AT SCUTARL

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN,
.Barrack Hospital, Scutari, April 14.
Sir,—l beg to inform you that I had the honour of
opening my large kitchen on Easter Monday, in the
13 trrack hospital of Scut iri, under the itionwliate pa-
trons,4e of Ilriza.ber.G-enoral Lord Wm. l'aulet, and a
nunier,,us staff of military officers, besides a select com-
pany of ladies and gendemen, lOrming a jury for the
purpo+e of testing the condiments preparei, composing ,
my new diet for the patients. Among the number of
my visitors were e,:l. the eminent medical officials from
the different hospitals now established on the banks of '
the Bosphorus, bf which there are no less than six. I
must say that the success which I met with has
fir exceeded my highest . anticipations, though, prior I
to my departure from England, felt assured
that I should be enabled to effect some good
in the shape of ameliorating the diet which, as I
have described in my works upon ciokery, is of the
most paramount importance, though, I regret to say, is
but too often disregarded and in many caves totally ne-
glected. The plan of my course of action to ensure suc-
cess may probably interest some of your readers. On
my atrival here, I fir6t visited, in company with Miss
Nightingale and the Medical Superintendent of this
Hospital, all the Eyre-rooms, took-houses, small kit-
chens, and provision departmits, to glean an idea of
the rules, regulations, an allowances made by the
authorities. Having beepoinitiated upon these points,
at trifling expense I at dice organised to my own fancy
one of the Turkish kity/ifkis belonging to the barracks' and
which I consider ont4 of the finest in the world, instead of
there being no 4pttr4pr;ate Kitchell, as was represented to
me by several of-tte Government employee prior to my
embarkationiaor the East, I found ample room and space
adapted foi culinary purposes, even upon the most
elaborate and extensive scale. I then prepared my
bill of fare, according to the provisions allowed, which
at all times are of an inferior quality, and carefully
made my experiments by mans of weights and mea-
sort:Jß,
.and produced samples of the different prepara-
tions forming the new diet ; and finally, submitted the.
same, together with specimens of the original diet ad-
ministered, for public inspection on Monday last, as
stated above. The result of a comparison of the two
systems, by tasting each article, caused kis lordship to
write and present me with a testimonial signed by all
the medical authorities, a copy of which I herewith
enclose you. I cannot conclude without returning
my sincere thanks to the authorities and officials here,
who have each and all rendered me the utmost assistance
in my undertaking, and most especially have I to ex-
press my gratitude to Miss Nightingale who, from her
extraordinary intelligence, and the good oiganisation in
her kitchen, procured me every material for making a
beginivng, and thus saved me at least one week's sheer
loss of time, as my new model kitchen did not arrive till
Saturday last. , I have commenced the supply of several
an
wards to the mti-faction of my new guests, and purpose
in a few days introducing the system at
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three hours.
soldiers every
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With the highest
your roost obedient servant, A. sofER.
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