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

[Sue Clemenger]

Ah, now, laddie....mebbee it be made from brown windsors???
--maire, practicing her pirate accent....

"Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" wrote:
> 
> 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.