SC - Easy period soups?

[Jenne Heise]

> gelatin. Does that ring any bells? More generally, can anyone think 
> of a period soup recipe that is easy and inexpensive to make, and 
> would thus be a suitable replacement for a modern dehydrated chicken 
> soup?

To be honest, having carted around period soups in jars to dayboards, no
period soup is going to be a suitable replacement for what they are doing,
because you are going to have to screw around with making broth from
scratch. Now, you could get up at 7 am, start the fire or fire
replacement, and do the soup from scratch on site, but it's going to
involve a lot of work for an experienced cook and messing around with
chicken and chickenfat on the battlefield. That seems to me to re-raise
the issues of health and safety that she was concerned about to begin
with.

If you make your broth ahead of time, then you get to cart around
chickenbroth in jars. Even if you put it in plastic jugs and freeze it,
it won't stay frozen the entire war. *slosh, slosh* It's also heavy and
messy to carry.

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