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This is the dietary for the Huddersfield Workhouse. This was the list of meals supplied to the inmates of the workhouse.

(Catalogue ref: MH 12/15070)

Weeks Dietary for 150 inmates - Huddersfield
Workhouse, April 24th 1848.

DAYS	BREAKFAST	DINNER	SUPPER

Sunday	6lb flour and oatmeal boiled in 6 gallons old milk. 7oz wheaten bread	24lb's rice boiled - served with sauce, sweetened with treacle, seasoned with sweet pepper - 5lb's flour, 2lb's treacle, used for sauce.	46lb's flour boiled with 6 gallons old milk - No Bread
Monday	46lb's flour boiled with 6½ gallons old milk - No Bread	4 shilling's worth shin of beef or leg offal stewed with 42lb's potatoes. 3 gills average served out with ¼ an Oaten cake	6lb of flour and oatmeal boiled in 6½ gallons old milk- Half an Oaten cake
Tuesday	32lb's oatmeal boiled in 6 ½ gallons old milk - No Bread	48lb's oatmeal boiled into porridge served with 22 quarts buttermilk 22 quarts old milk	6lb of flour and oatmeal boiled in 6½ gallons old milk- Half an Oaten cake
Wed'day	46lb's flour boiled with 6½ gallons old milk - No Bread	5 stone flour and 5lb suet, made into pudding 6lb flour and 2lb treacle used for sauce	6lb of flour and oatmeal boiled in 6½ gallons old milk- Half an Oaten cake
Thursday	46lb's flour boiled with 6½ gallons old milk - No Bread	13 gallons milk served with ½ Oaten cake	46lb's flour boiled with 6 gallons old milk - No Bread
Friday	46lb's flour boiled with 6½ gallons old milk - No Bread	19lb's beef, 21Ib's bacon, 112lb's potatoes	6lb of flour and oatmeal boiled in 6½ gallons old milk- ½ an Oaten cake
Saturday	46lb's flour boiled with 6½ gallons old milk - No Bread		32lb's oatmeal boiled in 7 gallons milk -

The matron, when detailed what the dietary had been, said that she could not perchance continue to make soup with so little leg offal and she had that week used 6/- worth instead of 4/-. The old women have a quarter of a pound of sugar, and half an ounce of tea allowed for a week's consumption in addition to their share of the foregoing diet. These were formally served from the Grocer's weighed up.

For the establishment two pounds butter is got per week. This has to serve for the Master and Matron, the old women and sick children.