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Updated: May 19, 2025

Objections were raised in the columns of the Times against the small quantity of meat he used in making some of those soups. "A brother artiste," as M. Soyer calls him, maintained that a quarter of a pound of meat, allowed in making two gallons of his soup No. 1, was not at all enough.

John O'Rourke - The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) : With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines