Kitchen utensil boiling coffee, or a filter — either being equally good; a tin canister to keep roasted and ground coffee in; a canister for tea; a covered tin box for bread; one likewise for cake, or a drawer in your store-closet, lined with zinc or tin; a bread-knife; a board to cut bread upon; a covered jar for pieces of bread, and one for fine crumbs; a knife-tray; a spoon-tray; — the yellow ware is much the stringest, or tin pans of different sizes are economical; — a stout tin pan for mixing bread; a large earthen bowl for beating cake;
Ladle Hill as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1978. Ladle Hill typifies a calcareous grassland chalk downland habitat now scarce in Britain, and is home to some unusual and rare species. The earthwork in particular is very rich in species, with a good range of downland grasses and large populations of rare and local plants such as field fleawort, "Senecio integrifolius"; chalk milkwort, "Polygala calcarea"; hairy rock-cress, "Arabis hirsuta"; fragrant orchid, "Gymnadenia conopsea"; and pyramidal orchid, "Anacamptis pyramidalis". The earthwork escarpment slopes, though species-rich, support fewer species than within the fort, but some, notably clustered bellflower, "Campanula glomerata", only