soup-meat

As he said he had been a teamster, and knew that soup-meat went into cold water, we rushed blindly into an engagement with him, marriage-service fashion, and took him for better or worse.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

Again I had the cows milked, gathered up all the corn-bread that was left, with some hard-tack, and with the aid of the few decrepit nurses before mentioned made a fire, and warmed up the soup and soup-meat which had been prepared for the convalescent table the day before, but was not consumed.

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

Seas of thin soup invariably preceded a dish of shapeless masses of "soup-meat," garnished with boiled peas.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Peter, "she said, earnestly," when I think of marketing again -- six chops and soup-meat and butter and baking powder -- I feel sick!

Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

I had little training in that, for one does not learn much about housework in a wretched hovel of three rooms almost destitute of furniture, nor does one acquire culinary skill when the food to be prepared consists of soup-meat and potatoes (seldom enough of that) and corn-bread, made without either eggs or "shortening."

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

I had little training in that, for one does not learn much about housework in a wretched hovel of three rooms almost destitute of furniture, nor does one acquire culinary skill when the food to be prepared consists of soup-meat and potatoes (seldom enough of that) and corn-bread, made without either eggs or

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

Miss Barrison produced three bowls full of boiling water and dropped three pellets of concentrated soup-meat into them, while I prepared coffee.

In Search of the Unknown 1899

Brot_ (a story of servant life in Berlin) will remember the mistress who kept every bit of dainty food under lock and key, and fed the kitchen on soup-meat all the year round.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

The feast of which they were invited to partake consisted of a lot of potatoes with their jackets on, without the formality of a platter, a plate of what the boys termed 'soup-meat,' a soup-dish minus the soup, knives and forks, and empty mugs.

White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Louis Albert Banks 1894

If the rent was paid and there was some soup-meat for dinner she was content.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890