Series 2 > Household book of Lady Grisell Baillie

OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
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as many glasses on a salver as there is people, and fill it
befor you come into the room, and leave the bottle at the
door in case more is wanted, and have a clean napkin
hung over your arm.
The Servants Diet
There is to be brewed out of every Louthian Boll of
Malt 20 gallons of small beer, our coper and looms brews
2| bolls at a time which is 50 gallons, that is 400 Scots
pints. From 6 furlets of Malt that is a Louthian boll
and half there is 240 scots pints of beer.
pints
17 servants 3 mutchkins a day each is about 13
pints a day which in 14 days is . . . 182
For the table 2 pints a day in 14 days is . . 28
For second table 2 pints a day is and 2 more . 30
240
This calculation is when all the servants get beer.
8 stone of meal or broun flower should fully serve 17
servants eight days.
There is 30 loves out of the stone of Oat meal, the same
reckoning to be made of broun flower or Ry, backt in half
peck,1 loaves. Beef salted for the servants is cut in pieces
of as many pounds as there are common servants, if 15,
every pice is 15 pounds, no alowence in that for the second
table, they geting what comes from the first table.
Sunday they have boild beef and broth made in the
great pot, and always the broth made to serve two days.
Monday broth made on Sunday and a Herring.
Teusday broth and Beef.
Wednesday broth and 2 egs each.
Thursday Broth and beef.
Fry day Broth and Herring.
1 This should surely be half pound ; a peck is a measure of capacity containing
about two stones.