Beverly Workhouse Diet

Breakfast – Each Day – Milk Porridge or Water Porridge

Sunday
Beans or Peas – baked or stewed – with or without a pudding

Monday
Hasty Pudding and Molasses

Tuesday
Fresh Fish, if it can be obtained – or in its stead – stewed meat or boiled meat and broth thickened with barley meal. Potatoes and other sauce included with this dinner.

Wednesday
Boiled Indian bag pudding – with or without suet – when made without suet a sauce of vinegar and molasses may be allowed

Thursday
Salt fish and potatoes with dip

Friday
Soup or Hasty Pudding and molasses

Saturday
Bullocks heads – shins – or other meat with potatoes

*pork and green sauce may be substituted for any of the above dinners when the sauce can be obtained out of the garden

Source:  Beverly Workhouse Register, April 1804 – May 1841 (62.12 MB)

 

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Beverly Workhouse Diet Questions

1. What is ‘Hasty Pudding’?

2. What is ‘salt fish’?

3. What is ‘Indian Pudding’?

4. What are ‘Bullocks Heads’?

5. Which if any, of the four food food items, are still available today?

6. Have you ever tasted any? If so, which ones?