abstract:Portable soup was a kind of dehydrated food used in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was a precursor of the later meat extract and bouillon cubes, and of industrially dehydrated food.
"I'llcome backlater on totakeawayyourtrash," he promises, ashesets up a portableelectric hot plateonthe table. He snipsopensealedvacuum packs of souptopourinto thehot pot.