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...immense brick ovens where all the meats are roasted. One was forcibly reminded of the old fashioned ovens of our grandfathers, which produced such an impression upon our childish fancies. A bakery of no mean proportions is a necessary adjunct. It requires no less than two barrels of flour every day to satisfy our desires for the "staff of life." The huge range, upon which all steaks are broiled, and all orders cooked; the vegetable kettles of enormous capacity, and many other immense contrivances did escape our attention...
...Senator from the Dover district, from 1851 to 1855. He died in 1862 from injuries received in a railroad accident about one year previous. My uncle, Samuel S. Fullerton, died in 1832, while a junior at Yale college. And my uncle Francis S. Fullerton, is now engaged in the flour business in Wilma, Minnesota...
...will be interesting to note that the following amount of food is daily consumed at Memorial : 110 loaves of bread, 1200 rolls, 2 barrels of flour, 720 to 850 qts. of milk, 90 pounds of butter 130 pounds of sugar, 50 pounds of oatmeal, 35 pounds of cracked wheat, 1,000 pounds of beef (when used twice a day), 500 pounds of mutton, and 640 pounds of poultry...
...quantity of food was then considered. 63 1/2 ounces to 70 ounces is the average amount eaten daily by men in training. Over-eating produces an unnatural appetite. In regard to quality, the refining of flour, etc., often renders it more indigestible. One should not take anything distasteful to him. There should be a variety in diet, in order to obtain all the principal elements of subsistence which are not found in any one form of nutriment. Benefit results from what is digested, not from what is eaten merely. A man's natural appetite and sense of hunger should determine...
...average daily consumption at Memorial Hall is: Of flour, about two and a half barrels; of milk, one hundred and twenty gallons; of meat, one thousand pounds. Four hundred and fifty pounds of turkey are usually demolished in one dinner, and it takes a barrel of fruit to furnish dessert...