[Sca-cooks] Portable Soup

[Crandall]

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-----
> 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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