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The name of Alexis Benoît Soyer (1809–58), French-born cook to fashionable society in England, subsequently working for Irish famine-relief and with the British army in the Crimea, used attrib. and formerly in the possessive, as Soyer('s) stove, to designate a table-top cooking-range (the Magic stove) developed by him in 1849, or his Field stove invented in 1857. Also absol.
1856A. Soyer Mod. Housewife (new ed.) 513 (Advt.), Soyer's Magic Stove and Lilliputian Apparatus, specially adapted for out-door cooking. 1857― Culinary Campaign 524 These receipts are also applicable for barracks, in camp, or while on the march, by the use of Soyer's New Field Stove, now adopted by the military authorities. 1858Volant & Warren Mem. Alexis Soyer xiii. 157 M. Soyer at once perceived the importance of this little apparatus, and..it was brought out..as ‘Soyer's Magic Stove’, to which was added the ‘Camp Kitchen’. 1878Instructions to Mil. Cooks in Prep. Dinners 9 The field cooking apparatus in use in the Army are Feetham's and Soyer's stoves... Soyer's stove..is fitted with a boiler only, and will cook for 50 men. 1941Jrnl. R. Army Med. Corps LXXVII. 274 Soyer stoves or other improvised water heaters. 1981J. Barnett Firing Squad ii. 116 Blackened cauldrons, known in the Army as Soyer stoves, spew thick smoke from tall thin chimneys... The men are offered soup from the Soyers. |
