Portable Soup, The Original Beef Essence

Authors

  • Malcolm Thick Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27846

Keywords:

portable soup, essences, recipe history, preparations & techniques, meat jelly, portable food, Sir Hugh Plat, Early Modern England, transmittal, 18th century, industrial production, commodification, instant foods, military provisioning, gelatine, nutrition

Abstract

The author looks at the history of portable soup and meat essences and their reception by the public, the military and within medical circles.

Author Biography

  • Malcolm Thick, Independent Scholar

    Malcolm Thick has been writing about food history and the history of vegetable gardening for many years, not least chez Prospect. His latest project is a biography of the agricultural writer William Ellis.

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Published

2020-12-01

Issue

PPC 118 (2020)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Thick, Malcolm. 2020. “Portable Soup, The Original Beef Essence”. Petits Propos Culinaires, December, 83-103. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27846.