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Soup Tablets

The following recipe shows how to make the soup tablets which were so much used by the German army during the Franco-German war. Take eleven parts by weight of good suet, melt it in an iron pan, and make it very hot, so as to become brown; add, while keeping the fat stirred, eighteen parts of rye-meal, and continue heating and stirring, so as to make the mass brown; add then four parts of dried salt and two parts of coarsely pulverised caraway-seeds. The mixture is then poured into tin pans somewhat like those used for making chocolate into cakes. The cakes have the appearance of chocolate, and are chiefly intended for the use of soldiers when in the field. A quantity of about an ounce of this preparation is sufficient to yield, when boiled with some water, a ration of good soup, and in case of need, the cakes being agreeable to the taste, they may even be eaten raw.