[Sca-cooks] Portable Soup
Crandall
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Wed Nov 9 18:25:16 PST 2011
I suspect it is more like Erbswurst (pea sausage) - which was a standard military ration in the Franco/Prussian War and is still a commercial product made by Knorr. It is dehydrated pea soup. The Boer War British troops had a similar ration, which was made by Kopf's.
- Journal of the United States Cavalry Association
United States Cavalry Association - 1894 ppg. 103-105
Crandall, Olde Phule
"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong." -John Kenneth Galbraith
--- On Wed, 11/9/11, Betsy Marshall <betsy at softwareinnovation.com> wrote:
> From: Betsy Marshall <betsy at softwareinnovation.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Portable Soup
> To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 3:39 PM
> So..something like early boullion
> cubes?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> 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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