Easiest Way to Make Portable Soup
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2015
- Portable soup is a meat broth that is condensed to solid form. It was a very common ration/survival food in the 18th century, and it can be used as a wonderful flavor enhancer in any modern dish. Making portable soup, however, takes a long time, and if you don't watch it closely, it is easily ruined. In this video, we show you a easy, nearly fail-safe way to make it at home so that you can take it to your next historical event or have it on hand the next time you need broth or wish to boost the flavor of your favorite dish or soup.
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Me at 1am : I hope I can sleep soon
CZcams: P O R T A B L E S O U P
SOUP OF THE EVENING
PORTABLE SOUUUUP
Soup of hell
I laughed out loud at 1am reading this comment. Priceless
Literally me right now at 1:52am.
the Kaeru
HahahahahHa 👍👍
soup rollups
LOL
I died laughing to this.
Soup by the Foot
LOL
Market this!
1:33 I love how he says "even if you're not a historical re-enactor yet" as if it's inevitable.
If you watch the channel for too long without becoming a reenactor,he kidnaps you and performs a demonic nutmeg ritual to forcibly convert you into a reenactor
Return to settler.
It's a slippery slope tihis is like a gateway drug, you watch this then you make portable soup your hooked
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It is... inevitably
I was like WHAT?! Portable soup?! Then I remembered bullion cubes exist.
Those are 99% msg
@@pokejust7045 i mean, the effect is the same though
@@pokejust7045 alchemy
And those powder packets
@@guysmiley6152 MSG is not bad for you
I like how he says "even if you're not a historical reenactor yet" like he's planning on converting you lol
Enoch Bird I noticed that too haha! It’s only a matter of time... 👀
Have you accepted 18th century jesus into your kitchen ?
1:32
ONE OF US!
@@matt475 ONE OF US
Can you imagine in 300 years there’s gonna be a guy dressed as a college student and making ramen noodles and hot dogs in a coffee maker 😂
I'd watch that cooking show now.
@James F what we think is stupid now may be deemed ingenious in the future.
@James F You might be among too many stupid people then. People are smarter than ever. The intelectual divide is increasing, however, just like the class divide. That's caused by the crappy governments.
Yo how is james like "people today are so stupid...." bro utilizing a device for an unintended but beneficial purpose is like... The opposite of stupid.
Honestly I love it ty OP for a low cost option to make food in a dorm that doesn't allow cooking pads. Never would have thought of that otherwise because I don't drink coffee
Omg shut up. We haven't de-evolved that far have we?
"Hey man, want some soup?"
"Yeah sure."
*reaches into pocket*
Filthy frank vibes
LMFAO
“Wait a minute...”
@@remiicario ravioli ravioli
AHAHAH
About as useful as eating soup with a fork...
This guy: “Jokes on you buddy!”
😄
-Check his pockets, soldier!
-There is only soup!
-What do you mean there is only soup?!
Where are you right now?
@@vinculaomega5283 I'm at soup
@@blacknwhitegaming what do you mean your at soup?
@@leeru1413 I mean I'm at soup!
Code: Ment never dies and I am ABSOLUTELY okay with that.
Imagine someone pickpocketing you and they grab your portable soup by accident.
A crime punishable by death.
Or better yet, on purpose.
that would be so sad, I'd have to re-make my portable soup :(
*Skyrim pickpocket looking in your bag*
"The hell? And only 5% success rate too?!"
that's a good reason to break some bones
Thank you so much! It was so hard carrying around all those soup cans in my pockets
This is such a fabulous shelf-stable, low-salt alternative to stock cubes❣️ Love it.
*Pssssst, hey kid*
'Yeah?'
*Wanna learn how to make portable soup?*
'Ok'
Ok, Just give me 5 minutes and 55 seconds, I'll be right back. :D
@@LiRuiMeng "eh.. the bugger is a second too late! Oh well off i go then..."
100th like
John riding around in a white, windowless covered wagon offering kids portable soup if they get in and listen to his ramblings about Joseph Plumb Martin
Xdxdxdxdxd
In 200 years they gonna be talking about instant noodles like this.
sands they may be talking about it this way much sooner
Bold of you to assume that human beings would still exist haha
@@kittybelgira6284 why would we not?
@@lightningandodinify killing ourselves and the people who are helping us and killing the planet
@@muhsinmehrban1138 what? QoL will be very different because if climate change (for people in my privileged country). I don't see how it would be an existential crisis however. How are we killing ouselves and who are these people helping us?
When I made mine, I used chicken legs. I took the meat from the slow cooker, shredded it up real small, salted it, and dried it out on a low temp. It is WONDERFUL.
I don't know if anyone else is reading the Aubrey/Maturin series, but these videos really help to visualize a lot of the ship's food.
I haven't read any of the books, but Master and Commander is one of my favorite foods
Yes, my first thought when I saw the video title: "Stephen praises this stuff to hight heaven!"
Man I love how he just gets right to it. It's like the exact opposite of "click bait"
Yes and not a 30 sec clip of them making a small mistake and laugh and...
He condenses his videos like he condensed that soup
It’s because he’s old-timey, and those days didn’t have clickbait like that
Its completely irrelevant for me but I find it top quality content
So if you took two hardtacks,
Some portable soup, and some jerky. You would have a survival sandwich and probably the hardest sandwich to eat ever made.
Problem is you'd have no teeth left afterwards. Lol. I know, I know. It could all be softened. A few minutes for the soup, a couple of hours for the jerky, about a week for the hardtack (used to be a Civil War reenactor so I am quite familiar with that stuff).
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I like your style
Replace the jerky with pemmican.......break your pemmican up and throw it in a pan. Cook until the pan is nice and greasy. Pound your hardtack into small bits. Add it to your pan and mix until it's covered in the pemmican fat. Cook a little longer but do not burn. Add a little water at a time constantly sturing until you get a loose gravy. If needed add a little of your portable stew for flavored as well as what other berries and veggies you can procure. Cook until veggies are tender and enjoy.
Beef shanks are high up among the most flavorful cuts on the entire animal. If you've not had it, try making a barley-beef or other grain / vegetable beef soup with them.
Cooking times will be long, so it's a good option for pressure cooking to at least get the bulk of the tenderizing done. Otherwise a long simmer in the crockpot is the thing.
If you live near a Vietnamese grocery, pick up a package each of beef shanks and flank, along with some carrots and the spice mixture for bo kho. Bo kho is a French-Vietnamese stew that's simply amazing.
Me: well, the all nighter is finished and I submitted the test, time for sleep
CZcams: portable soup
Me: I dont wanna sleep anymore
Finally, a soup I can throw in my dab rig when I'm on the go
So I'm not the only who thought that it looked like some dab..lol
Just imagine the terpenes...🤔
😖😖😂
That's some mad flavor yo
Smoking like some Campbell's soup 😎
This man would be invaluable during an apocalypse
So in a couple of weeks
They had already eat him
And now, here we are
He is going to leave prepers behind.
How Not To an apocalypse would be a million times worse than children looting and burning buildings out of a temper tantrum so......
Even if you are not a historical reenactor "yet"... I love this man so much
Our forefathers and mothers were so ingenious in finding ways to preserve food for as long as possible. Imagine being the first person to figure this out, you'd feel like a god. You effectively turned a whole bunch of your stock into a lightweight yet dense packet without much loss. It's stuff like this that enabled us to roam so far and wide and eventually settle on the entire world. We live in an age now where few or none of these incredible ideas have to be used by ourselves anymore, and without channels like this much would be lost on us. Thank you.
"Essence of meat"... When those words were uttered, my heart went all aflutter.
Have you seen Carl Sagan's meat planet video?
It's like a spiritual experience.
@@ChaosBW Ha! I will now.
@Nero Metal No, best is... essence... of gelfling
Hey that rhymes!
I've never heard about this and go hiking all the time, these old recipes have serious modern day use
Seriously! I'm checking all these historic channels out for camping tricks now!
Why not carry chicken bouillon or beef stew seasoning?
Bouillon? In your POCKET?! This is better
Bullion just makes flavored salt water. This stuff actually has vitamins and nutrients like collagen in it, that's the big difference.
@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 it might not have as much, but like everything is fortified w vitamins these days
I’ve done a similar thing with chicken stock before, reduced all the way down until there’s no water, poured into a container and frozen. Its easy to slice out of the freezer but i made the addition of pork hocks for extra gelatin.👍🏻
for extra chicken flavour, instead of pork hocks you could use chicken feet for a similar effect
I wonder if ice cube molds would be a convenient way to store and use it 😂
I've done that with reduced concentrated broth, so I only filled the tray cubes half way. Then I put it in freezer bags and one cube makes a cup or so of broth. @@beatnik6806
An old time bullion, that’s actually cool
18th century: "we may have portable soup but maybe in like 2015 we'll have flying automobiles"
2015: *P O R T A B L E S O U P*
When I can eat a flying car, I'll change my mind.
@@kaistzar2831 Did you mean: _Peel P50_
Automobiles werent even a thing then
"What in Heaven's Name is an 'automobile'?"
@@53gaDr34mc4st Well, one may guess it's something mobile and automatic
Boss at work : what’s that in your pocket? Me: soup.....
why tf should your boss aks whats in your pocket?
@@hypoint common 21st century problem
I would suggest allowing the counteranacronism of spooning the still warm fluid final material into silicone stick ice cube trays for portion control and ease of handling after cooling.
If my history teacher told use to write a 1000 word essay on this channel,
I’ll triple that
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"Even if you're not a reenactor... yet" this is no longer a choice, it's out of your hands.
We will absorb old culture and individuality, resistance is futile.
I submit
Knock knock it’s the 18th century!
Bwahahaha
This video made me subscribe. Not because I was into making portable soup, but because you seem cool.
Agreed :)
Same here. First video I've seen.
ZA_Survivalist Right. I love this channel. One of the best IMO on CZcams.
Randomly happened across the pemmican video. I think youtube threw it at me because I've been watching Primitive Technology. Halfway through that video I opened a dozen other tabs of his videos. I like.
And same here:)
I appreciate the way you bring history to life. Thank you Sir, with love.
I really appreciate your channel, I learned a lot over the past years watching your videos. Priceless!
Hank Hill: you can't keep running away with my soup dale.
Dale: *P O C K E T S O U P*
“Souper” Secret, you mean 😏
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SHA SHAAA!
I can just imagine that scene in KotH...
When you put all your skill points into provisioning
Survivalist skill maxed fo sho
This was the first video from this channel that I watched... It is still interesting as it was the first time I saw it! Thank you for all your videos
I remember my grandmother making this when I was very young, and I have to say, it really does add heaps of flavour to a simple quick vegetable soup. Stock cubes doo too, but the flavour this gives is very different.
"Even if you're not a historical reenactor -yet-" I knew it! He's trying to brainwash us! Flee! Flee before he... oh, that looks good.
It's his enthusiasm that will eventually win you, might as well get fitted for a tri-corner hat now.
It's been a year. How's your marksmanship with the Brown Bess going? ;)
Hahahahahahaha!
My CZcams recommended: "There's only soup"
Me: "what do you mean there is only soup"
Recommended: "There's only soup"
Why are you buying clothes at the soup store
Searched for this reference. Would've written it myself if you hadn't. Have my upvote.
I'm really interested in the shelf life of this. Since fat is what can go rancid, and that is removed, then dried, I bet this has incredible shelf life if stored in a cool dry place. If it continues to dry out and harden with time I wouldn't store it in any kind of air tight container
Fat generally doesn't unless there's still moisture.
If you want food to last, kill the mould and bacteria etc, or take it out of the temperature range it acts in, or dehydrate it to prevent their growth.
Things don't go rancid on their own.
If you treat meat and keep it away from any contaminant it will never truly go bad. Though the flavour will probably change vastly.
Well, he used this one in his recent video and it's been 8 years
Had great success making this with deer bones. I’m storing it in a jar with rice to absorb any excess moisture there might be.
Richard Thompson... Good idea!! Do you have any idea how long it can be stored?
Thats super cool
james : "18th century cooking"
also james : "take out your slow cooker...."
also james: EASIEST WAY TO MAKE PORTABLE SOUP COMPARED TO THE OLD FASHIONED WAY
Lmbo
It would take hours and hours. Basically monitoring the heat. Read the bio of the video, it's a fool proof way to do it.
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Ye Old Crock Pote
And I thought bullion was something relatively new! I remember hearing my grand father talking to his brother about pocket soup when he was in grade school. I no nothing of the discussion but the term. I am 68. I was about 6.
“How to make bullion flavored crystal meth”
That was enthralling and I just subscribed! Thanks for that!
Who on earth would dislike this??? This is an amazingly unique way of learning about history through one palate. I stumbled across this channel a few weeks ago and subscribed. Thank you gentleman for all the hard work and splendid videos! Cheers
Thanks for the great comment!
It's also a good way to get away from processed products. I'm old school with food, I dislike the sodium and artificial foods.
+Kristin Gallo me to
Just what part of this recipe isn't processing the food?
Processed products isn't just another term for chemicals.
StaticFalconar I prefer my food without gmos and cancer agents. Thanks
I just finished reading Undaunted Courage, about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Before leaving, Lewis bought up all the portable soup he could lay hands on. It was expensive stuff!
That and a whole bunch of "Rush's Thunderbolts" (or "Thunderclappers").
The cure all lol
I have recommended this episode many times, it's so well demonstrated!
This channel has shown me the joy in reenactment. Thank you Mr Townsends.
"Essence of meat"
Ron Swanson wants to know your location.
Ron Swanson probably knows how to make this
haha bacon wishkey ;)
Who?
There is something delightfully incongruous about seeing the slow cooker sitting there in your historically accurate kitchen!
Want to play a drinking game?
Drink once every time he says "portable," "soup"
Drink twice if he says "portable soup"
It's a good way to stay hydrated.
Change the drink to a nibble of portable soup
Knowledgeable, charismatic, great energy. You have earned my sub
“Portmanteau Pottage” I love that!!! That’s what I’m gonna start calling my bouillon cubes!
I gotta say, for some reason my favorite episodes are the ones where you talk about old preservation technique. Hard tack, portable soup, etc. Would you guys mind doing an episode on smoked and pickled foods as well? Like smoked haddock (although that was more of a German thing to be fair, but you get the idea I hope.)
I'd like to wish for you, your family and friends, and those of us CZcamsrs who greatly enjoy the fun and education found with every episode of your Eighteenth Century Cooking channel, and many more, in 2021. Thank you!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Really interesting all the different recipes and foods. Love history, love food, love this channel.
Finally I can embark on the journey to Mordor, with a bindle of portable soup.
HELP! HELP!!! I'm stuck in an endless loop! This video tells me to watch the soup video, the soup video tells me to watch this one.
I've been here for 2 years now.
HELP!
**Edit** It's been 2 years now... Still stuck in the endless loop. Sanity slowly slipping away.
lol
Oh no that is horrible!
Maybe you should have some steamed clams instead of soup.
R u slow
@@VossYeti there's always that one guy responding to a comment who has no clue what a joke is. He always insults the person who made the joke, calling them slow or stupid, and doesn't realize that he is the dumbass in that situation.
Don't be that guy.
That's so cool. Love these videos!
Apocalypse happens
Me: befriend all the building, survival and historical reenactor youtubers.
That wouldn't last sitting out on my counter. It would become a gelatinous cat treat.
OMG That would not do well for your carpet🐱💩
Will and Julie Santee
It would be good for cat food.
Cadence James be careful not to salt. Too much salt will kill their leetle kidneys.
@@edrenajones5960 Cats have extremely efficient kidneys, to the point that they can actually drink seawater without any ill effects. It's not recommended to give cats seawater though its more like a handy survival mechanism.
Like jerky for your cat
This is great! I‘ve been wondering for a long time if there was a way to make something akin to instant broth at home from the chicken broth or beef broth I freshly cook. As I‘m allergic to many foods and most instant broths contain at least one of those ingredients (and those that don’t aren’t always great tasting) it is very difficult to have a quick and convenient way of making soup. Plus I don’t have a lot of space in the small freezing compartment of the fridge to store large amounts of soup that I could just defrost whenever I need it. This portable soup may well be the answer to my problem. Thank you for bringing this old method to my attention! ❤
this is awesome, love this channel!!
I just finished up trying this my first time. Worked like a charm especially using a slow cooker. I love it and the leftover meat was used to make potted meat. Thinking of using it to make pemmican with the leftover meat next time. Loved it and the video made it easy as pie!
Did you try making Pemmican with it and if so, how did it go?
@@jorenbosmans8065 no I haven’t tried that but I doubt you would have good results being as this is not the same as rendered suet used in making pemmican. It’s would be closer to jello than suet.
Pemmican is food for survival. It is not tasty. Don't make it expecting to enjoy it.
soooo.... soup jerky?
David R so meat taffy
My first thoughts exactly, I'd eat that if i was hiking.
You probably wouldn't want to eat this as is.
Look like hardened shart
I was wondering out of curiosity how it would taste it you took a chunk and sucked on it....
"Is that pocket soup in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me ?" !
man I love this channel so much its unreal
I like "pocket soup" myself. Sounds like something Dale Gribble would throw at someone.
Who is this dale gribble you speak of? That is rusty shackleford
pocket sand!
Damnit Dale!
Damnit Dale!
Shackleford.....Rusty Shackleford
Directions unclear. Scalding hot soup in my pocket.
MTG Mitch I can see how that may happen. It happened to me.
I see this as an absolute win
MTG Mitch oh you made me laugh. Your drawers must be wet too😃
Nothing worse than scalding hot soup inside bat country
Austin Downing Of course! Who doesn’t?
I love this channel now. Informative and very relaxing.
Im gonna make it and use it! I usually make more broth, reduce it a bit and freeze it but it takes some space.
This recipe is what I need!
Ah, the Hamilton Beach slow cooker, just like Lewis and Clark used
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same print and everything. really true to the era.
This guy is like a Bob Ross of food
Rudolph Jacobson for some reason he reminds me of Les Stroud from Survivorman.
dramaends yeah!
Omg I was just thinking that! You must've been as high as I am when you watched it.
topkek
that is actually a really good analogy
Really unique, I love this !!!
Love this channel. So informative and fun.
Watching this channel made me appcreciated packet buoillion
I have made Portable Soup just like this and I agree, don't ever season it! The process of cooking down that much broth can throw off the flavors so it works better with a plain broth. I also know one easy way to dry it out once it's gelatinous. Lay it on some cloth, or filter paper, and put it on a box fan that is blowing downwards and drawing air past/around the whole mess. It's a bit like a dehydrator without the heat.
Would it be ok to just add salt? I don't like meat cooked without salt and since we would be eating that meat i would want the salt cause it is just not the same when you add salt after the fact.
It would probably end up something like marmite or vegemite once it had been reduced. Perhaps do something like a barbecue sauce? I use the same cuts of meat in a similar way, simmering them slowly in a homemade barbecue sauce. A richly flavourful sauce like that with the relatively-finely minced meat ought to not end up bland in the centre; simmer it in the sauce once it's been removed as in here for at least an hour and the flavour ought to penetrate it.
I am going to have to try this for camping! When I bring cold roasts along I add the gelatin from it as well; I didn't know it could be reduced!
Man, I love your CHANNEL!!!
It's crazy how many hours people spent on cooking back then and today most people rather order food before they have to spend 20 minutes cooking it themselves. I like cooking and while I don't have the time to try most recipes of this channel, this channel always gives me nice inspirations how to improve my own cooking or how to season my food, sometimes with amazing and very unexpected results.
I like to call it Crouching Soup, hidden broth. Or Ninja stock
Darrian Weathington only if it’s a tiger or dragon broth
The comment section never disappoints lol.
@@jessicahare5910 love the name you use btw haha
ruimeng li thanks
Coffee in the civil war was made like this by boiling coffee, milk and sugar until it became a thick paste. It was reconstituted with hot water in the battlefield.
That's interesting I wouldn't mind trying that it would be pretty cool to have while out camping some real "instant" coffee
@@Aatell764 Tastes pretty good!
@@Aatell764 you can just bring coffee sugar, and dried milk with you instead.. or bring milk capsules..
@@duckmeat4674 Or I can make a fun experience out of it and not use the easy way.
Coffee instant type II has found a competitor
I love you guys and your videos, keep it up! :)
I had to subscribe, this guy just puts a smile on my face.
It’s so funny seeing a slow cooker in an 18th century kitchen.
Lemonade Ye Olde Kitchenmate
Lmao so true
U want him to sit in front of a fire feeding it twigs so id doesnt die out for 8 hours then about 24 hours?
@@oscard.lisboa6105 yes that's good content
People clearly don’t understand. This is the EASIEST way to make this food, not the most historically accurate one.
“we need to bring the soup with us”
2nd traveler: “maybe we should find another food-“
*”we need to bring the soup with us”*
This has serious Second Breakfast vibes
Back then when it was fking cold everywhere, yeah Soup mighta been a solid idea xD
Ahahah
You don't throw away good soup. Of course you bring it with you.
@@MaxelWong 😂😂😂😂😂
Best line I have heard in a long time ......." Even if you're not a historical re-enactor YET......" LOL I love it.
Never seen that before. Very interesting. Thanks 👍
Electric Slowcookers were probably among the most popular 18thC cooking devices.
If only they had electric
@@kenbibbee837 I bet they had Ben Franklin come over and hook his kite up then waited for a thunderstorm.
oh please! He clearly says you can cook it over an open fire or on a stovetop.
@@SuzanneU should i woooosh you?
Wood stove with a few coals still glowing
My problem would be the drying period. I'm sure cat saliva would end up pretty much all the'd be left.
Andrew Jackson Put the broth in your cat carrier & close the door to keep the cat out of it. :-)
+Andrew Jackson Make the pocket soup using your cat as the meat.
John King I rike the way you think. Then just add ramen!
Come on, it's a LITTLE funny.
I have always said that cats are just taco meat on a stick. :-)
Really well presented video mate
Oh, this is wild! So fun fact: the reduced stage right before you move on to dehydration is known in professional kitchens as demi glace, and it makes *phenomenal* pan sauces.
sir. I just made some of your portable soup. This is the easiest recipe i've found to date. thank you, W.C Kline
Lewis and Clark brought about 300 pounds of this with them when they did their expedition.
Really? That's interesting!
woah, those guys weren't kidding around!
Lewis and Clark: the new adventures of Soup-erman!
My son and I visited Fort Clatsop this past summer. No, they weren't fooling around. When game was plentiful, they ate roughly 1 bison or 3 deer every day. average calorie intake was 12-15 thousand per man per day.
RexHavoc LOL awesome comment
Really interesting, will try this out one day camping as a curiosity. New subscriber from the UK. Very interesting and educational content ✌
Peg Leg Cook in Painting: “Aaaarrrr! I added an extree ingredient to me soup te give ‘er a KICK so teh speak” *wink wink
Just pull out your 18th century slow cooker...
+Shade Silverwing The video is called the "easiest way" not the most historically accurate way lol.
+Shade Silverwing Haha, "reenactment" is only practical to a certain extent. I doubt he's lying when he says the original method required hours upon hours of constant babysitting. This was easy when you were a dedicated cook with literally nothing else to do with your day, but ... I don't mind the compromise in this case if the end result is the same.
Shade Silverwing i just pulled out my 18th century open fire
Shade Silverwing LOL!
Shade Silverwing just pull out your 2012 soilent green..