[Sca-cooks] Portable Soup
Betsy Marshall
betsy at softwareinnovation.com
Wed Nov 9 13:39:01 PST 2011
So..something like early boullion cubes?
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From: sca-cooks-bounces+betsy=softwareinnovation.com at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+betsy=softwareinnovation.com at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Johnna Holloway
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:33 AM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Portable Soup
OED has this entry under portable:
Of a liquid substance: that may be carried or transported
conveniently, having been reduced by evaporation to a dried or
concentrated form able to be reconstituted later by the addition of
water. Now hist.
1594 H. Platt Jewell House iii. 36 A portable ynke to be caried
in the forme of a powder in any paper, leather purse or boxe.
1725 E. Strother Ess. Sickness & Health (ed. 2) ii. 49 Consider
the fashionable and portable Soop, now in Use with the Quality.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery vi. 65 To make Portable Soop‥the
Glew will be quite hard‥. When you use it, pour boiling Water on it.
1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades p. xxii, A portable ink,
without gall-nut or vitriol‥. Another portable powder, to make ink
instantly.
1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 192 Five pounds of portable soup, and
a sufficient quantity of dried meat to allow each man a pittance of
five pounds and a quarter.
1849 Punch 17 91/2 We have all heard of ‘Portable Soup’‥.
Now we have ‘Portable Milk’. A small jar of this solidified
material, we are told, contains the equivalent of six gallons of fluid
milk.
If anyone would like to see recipes, try Google Books and a search
under "portable soup". Charlotte Mason's recipe from 1787 is there
and descriptions from the book Soup Through the Ages, Lobscouse &
Spotted Dog,
Cooking in America, Feasting & Fasting with Lewis and Clark, etc.
Johnnae
On Nov 9, 2011, at 5:57 AM, Elise Fleming wrote:
> Eduardo wrote:
>
> >There is an article in PPC on portable soup. Not sure which one I
> am >away from my library.
>
> It's Issue 92. The recipe, imbedded in a story, is from Elizabeth
> Raffald's "The Experienced English Housekeeper", 1794 edition.
>
> Alys K.
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