Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-07-16
Cooking on a Large Scale.


Harvard college owns building fitted
with all the convenience TO cook for several
hundred young men, and there are now
boarding in II a number which must keep
the cooks busy. Here Is short account Of
the establishment, from the Golden Rule:
The Harvard Dining association has nine
ty employees besides its steward. A ten
horsepower engine, burning two tons of coal
per day, heats the building, and supplies
steam for the cooking and baking; but when
Sunders' theatre Is heated, a third ton Is ne
quired The cooking apparatus Is on vast
scale The great soup.kettle holds 22G gal
Ions, and 1t said to be tho largest kettle ever
cast in this country. Only 40 gallons of
soup, however, are required for the daily
dinner The oat meal kettle holds flfty-fve
gallons and that for cracked wheat twenty
gallons; but not quite, though very nearly,
this amount is consumed daily.
The great range, twenty-five feet long,
contains four ovens, and does all the frying
and heating plates, etc. There arc seven
kettles for boiling meats and five for yegeta-
bles, and none Of them OF very small size,
while the great charcoal crate will easily
broil steak for $50 men. But the most as
founding parts Of the culinary arrange
ments are two great ovcns, one for baking
meats, and one for bread aud pies The
first will cook 1000 pounds Of meat, the
other $50 pies. They are not by any means
too large, however, since from 800 to 1000
pounds Of meat are consumed daily, and
some ninety loaves Of graham and seventy
five white bread Tho heat never leaves the
the pastry oven from one month 10 another.
"How much -four do you use per day 2"
asked
ave average at least barrel and half,'
was the reply.
"And how many pios at one lunchI'
"a hundred and twenty-five, for which
three barrels of apples are needed"
Some delicious looking butter was un-
packing from huge box, and leafnod that
seycnty-hye pounds are here daily used for
the tables, and about tbs same amount for
cooking. That tho students. had not gone
hungry on that day, was conclusively shown
from the fact that Mt breakfast $50 pounds Of
rump steak and sixty-hye pounds Of fish
had been consumed that the larder CON
tanned for the dinner 400 pounds of turkey
and 500 pounds Of beef; that 100 gallons Of
milk (tho daily allowance), and forty pud-
diDgs Of large size, were In store, while
twelve immense pans Of gingerbread were
being prepared for the oven.
How SMOKING EFFECrs BOYs-We have
more than once said this that whatever diff
ference Of opinion there may be as W tho
effects Of smoking on men, there is little
dispute as 10 il being injurious 10 boys.
The BritiSh Me,iioai Monthly records the OBJ
seryations Of physician who has been in
yestigating this subject. lie took for his
purpose thiriiy-eigh, boys aged from nine b.
fifteen, and carefully examined them. In
lwonty he discovered injurious traces
u the habit In twenty-five there were
various disorders oC the calculations and
digestion, Qalpatatlon Of the heart, and
morn OF loss taste for strong drink. In
twelve there were frequently blccdings Of
HE nose, ten had disturbed sleep, and
twelve had slight ulcemiIoR Of the mucus
Of the n.oath, which disappeared
On ccasing the use Of tobacco for days.
The doctor treated them all for weaknesses.
but with little effect until Jhe smoking was
discontinued, when health and strength
were SION restored.