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

[johnna holloway]

Yes but where is the version made with OXO?

Eileen White includes a 1892 recipe for Windsor Soup made with calves 
feet, madeira wine, salt, and cayenne pepper which is darkened with 
caramel coloring. Served on crayfish quenelles.

I suspect this is all Victorian and has to do with the Widowed Queen of 
Windsor.

This is from Soup which is part of that new series The English Kitchen 
from Prospect Books.

Johnna

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Thank you! I had remembered it as being based on brown veal stock, 
> rather than beef (or maybe that was some French cook's heterodox idea), 
> but basically a pretty clear descendant of one of those Eliza Acton or 
> Hannah Glasse "gravysoop" recipes. And you can see how, with all the 
> wrong shortcuts taken, it might be pretty darned awful (akin to gluey, 
> canned beef gravy) but there's no reason why it would have to be.
> 
> \Homer Simpson voice on\ "Mmmmm... Brown Windsor Soup made with 
> oxtails..." \HSV off\
> 
> Adamantius