Mrs. Beeton, in her Book of Household Management, gives a “Useful Soup for Benevolent Purposes” she apparently inflicted on the poorer inhabitants of her village in the winter of 1858. It cost the benefactress 1½ pence per quart. This comes to a little more than that—the extravagance of a half bottle of beer pushes up the price recklessly. But this is much better than Mrs. Beeton’s charity soup.
