Rumford's Soup

Rumford's Soup, also called economy soup, was an early effort in scientific nutrition, invented by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, around 1800 for use in Munich and greater Bavaria, where he served as an advisor to Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. It was used as a ration for the poor, for Bavarian workhouses and military workhouses, and for prisoners, and Rumford has been credited with establishing the first real soup kitchen. The soup went on to become a common base for inexpensive military rations in Central Europe through much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/