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Jara spent the next few hours hauling water, chopping vegetables, cooking broth. She also experimented with a kind of bread made out of only grain and water and cooked flat on the bottom of a pan. It wasn’t beautiful or particularly good tasting, but it was filling. She brought it along to the men with the broth.
She carried the iron soup pot by its handle from tent to tent. She ladled out scanty portions, although she never said so to the men. But she needed to make certain the food would last. If she had to feed them all half rations from now on, then that was had to be done.
She fed the men on Rinaldo’s side of the camp first. She was relieved to see that many of them looked much better than yesterday. Hilyard, one of the older warriors, even offered to help Jara carry the pot of
