THREE COURSE MEALS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20602, 1 November 1941, Page 10

THREE COURSE MEALS

ENGLISH MINERS’ FARE Three-course meals for lOd are nowbeing served daily from one o clock to half-past six at Mansfield Colliery in Nottinghamshire. Here are three typical menus:— Lentil soup; steak pie, cabbage, potatoes; rhubarb tart and custard. Oxtail soup; brown stew, carrots, potatoes; date pudding and custard. Celery soup, boiled pork, sage and onion sauce, cabbage and potatoes; jam sponge and custard. The soup costs 2d; meat and two vegetables 6d, and pudding 2d. In spite of the-cheapness of the food, it is hoped that, when fully developed, the scheme will pay for itself. The miners, and their wives, are so enthusiastic about it that it will probably be extended to other pits in the Bolsover group, of which the Mansfield Colliery is one. Cutlery, crockery, tables and cooking equipment are supplied with the help of the Miners’ Welfare Commission, which has already sponsored pithead baths, recreation grounds and other amenities. Three West Yorkshire pits have also got pithead canteens which are serving from 3500 to 4000 hot meals a day—breakfasts, dinners, teas and suppers. Plans are ready for feeding a further 10,000 workers. Lord Woolton, the Minister of Fqod, has appointed an expert with wide experience in organising industrial canteens to help, and what lias now been begun as a wartime measure promises to take a permanent place in English colliery life.