[Sca-cooks] OOP Food Content, Brown Windsor Soup, was Goon Show

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Huette von Ahrens:

>The English in
>return shoot back cannon balls filled with
>something also lacking in taste and nutrition,
>Brown Windsor Soup.

Interesting that BWS should have such a reputation; I suppose it's 
part of the perceived general slide in standards that seems to begin 
in the Victorian Era and reach a high point (or low point, as the 
case may be) in the continued food rationing after WWII (until 1950 
or so?).

I'd heard of Brown Windsor Soup over the years, mostly in fiction, in 
movies and TV, but when I began to be interested in English culinary 
history, noted that I couldn't find a recipe for Brown Windsor Soup, 
at least not for a long time. I think I finally found one, or 
possibly a French recipe, along with their recipes for Rostbif, 
Plomboudin and machepoteto, for Potage Windsor.

As I recall it's a sort of veloute type of soup made with brown veal 
stock; there's no reason in the world why it should be lacking in 
taste and nutrition, at least no more so than most other soups.

Maybe it's part of the same phenomenon that has people tasting canned 
Espagnole sauce, making a face, and deciding French food sucks...

Adamantius