Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War.: With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil InstitutionsSoyer, Alexis
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Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War.: With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions
Soyer, Alexis
Cooking for military personnel; Crimean War, 1853-1856
TO BRIGADIER-GENERAL LORD WM. PAULET.--Important regulations to
insure for the future a good, clean, wholesome, and nutritious
class of food, and delicate beverages, to be daily produced for the
comfort of the sick and wounded in all the hospitals of the East,
as well as for the standing army, which will prove economical both
in a saving of time, and also a pecuniary sense. Monsieur Soyer
most respectfully solicits the assistance of Brigadier-General Lord
Wm. Paulet in granting the following requisites, which Monsieur
Soyer considers indispensable to carry out the objects of the
important mission conferred on him by the Government of her
Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria the First, and of which his
lordship has already given proofs of his high approval and
satisfaction, as well as his assistance in facilitating the
introduction of a completely new system of diet, which has met with
the approval of Doctor Cumming, the chief medical officer, and
every medical gentleman connected with his staff in the various
English hospitals at Constantinople.
First requisite.--That for every important hospital, a professed
man-cook shall be engaged, with a civilian assistant, instead of
military, as is now the case, and the principal to be under
military rules and regulations.
Second.--That all military men now engaged cooking in the hospitals
and barrack kitchens shall be immediately instructed in the art of
camp-cooking. As they are already acquainted with the plain mode of
cooking, it will only require a few lessons from Monsieur Soyer,
under his new and simple style, to become thoroughly conversant
with this branch of culinary operations, highly essential at the
present crisis, and about which the Right Honourable Lord Panmure,
her Majesty’s Minister-at-War, expressed the greatest anxiety
personally to Monsieur Soyer, on his mission to Scutari, with a
view to disseminating the system throughout the army. Monsieur
Soyer feels assured that if present in the camp for a few weeks he
will be enabled to carry out this important object, at the same
time introducing wholesome and nutritious food made out of the
usual allowances of provisions supplied to the army, so soon as his
field or bivouac stove shall be adopted by the Crimean authorities.
A. SOYER.
Approved. W. PAULET, B.-General, Commanding Troops.
_Scutari, May 1st, 1855._
I then returned my thanks and bade his lordship adieu. Thus terminated
my Scutari duties, which were afterwards carried on to my entire
satisfaction under the direction of Mr. Robertson, and supported by Lord
W. Paulet; later by General Storks, now Sir Henry, who succeeded his
lordship.
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