M. Alexis Soyer’s Soup for the Poor.
Since the ingenious gastronomic regenerator of the Reform Club issued his receipt for his cheap soup, every man has become his own cook, in his anxiety to produce a specimen of the popular potage. Discussions, also, have arisen upon the cost, as stated by the inventor, and opinions of every kind have been launched at it, principally, however, by those who expected to make mock turtle at three-half-pence a quart, out of nothing, and were disappointed therein. Its manufacture has suggested the following scene:—
Scene.—The Kitchen of the Reform Club. In the middle a Copper boiling.
Enter M. Soyer and two Cooks.
Soyer.—
Thrice the Palace clock hath chim’d.
2nd Cook.—
Thrice: and members all have dined.
3rd Cook.—
Ireland cries: ’tis time—’tis time!