Ovens

The modern improvements in the art of war, has beside making biscuit, the common food of man and horse, also introduced in the equipage of armies, ovens of cast iron, which travel with the waggon train, and the bakers are cla ed and under military discipline, in the performance of their important functions. The operations of dre ing food in military camps, have been also improved by the introduction of count Rumford’s proce of boiling, roasting, and baking by steam; all performed by the single fire which heats the oven.