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Brown Windsor soup is a British meat soup that is said by conventional wisdom to have been popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. ==Origins and history== It is unclear whether this often-written-about soup is of Victorian origin. Food writer Alan Davidson in ''The Oxford Companion to Food'' (2006) refers to an elaborate late Victorian recipe in Garrett's ''Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery'' from 1890, although Davidson does not make clear if Garrett's recipe is for a "Brown" Windsor Soup. The earliest known cases of "Brown Windsor soup" are found in restaurant menus published as advertisements in newspapers during the 1920s and 1930s. Examples include Cadena Cafes (Portsmouth) which advertised "Soup - Tomato or Brown Windsor" on its menu dated 24 February 1926.〔''The Portsmouth Evening News'', 24 February 1926. Page 3, advertisement for Cadena Cafes left column. Last accessed May 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.〕 Bobby's of Queens Road (Bristol) advertised "Potage Brown Windsor" (under the "soup" heading) on its menu dated 13 February 1931.〔''Western Daily Press'', Bristol, 13 February 1931. Page 9, advertisement for Bobby's of Queens Road left column. Last accessed February 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.〕 The Scottish department store Isaac Benzie advertised "Brown Windsor Soup" in a menu published 14 December 1933.〔''Aberdeen Press and Journal'', 14 December 1933, page 12, advertisement second column top. Last accessed February 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.〕 Some more recent web sources incorrectly claim there are no references to "Brown Windsor soup" prior to a joke mention, or invention, in the 1953 Ealing Studios film comedy ''The Captain's Paradise''. Another associates it with ''Calves' Feet Soup à la Windsor'', created for the "post-natal Queen Victoria" by Charles Elmé Francatelli, her chef.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Windsor Soup )〕〔''Calves' Feet Soup à la Windsor'' "A creamed soup of boiled calves’ feet, celery and other vegetables, cream, white wine, and raw yolks for final thickening." at Internet Archive.〕 Etymologist Michael Quinion claims the earliest reference is from 1943, in ''The Fancy'', by Monica Dickens.〔 Quinion speculates on three theories: that ''Brown Windsor soup'' may be confused with White Windsor soup, a type of soup which unquestionably existed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries appearing on many menus.〔 Or it may be confused with Brown Windsor soap, which also existed in this period. Or finally it may be a mashup term conflating White Windsor soup with Brown Windsor soap. In any case, "it became shorthand for awful food," and was used as a prop by comics in the post war years.〔 In short, Quinion suggests at least three possible theories as to the origin of the name and posits that resolution awaits further research.〔 As to the name, a few early White Windsor soup recipes included the use of Windsor fava beans, perhaps the origin of the name.〔 Quinion says there is no connection to the royal family itself since Windsor soup predates 1917, when the family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.〔 He also adds that fictional barrister Rumpole of the Bailey mentioned eating it on the Great Western Railway in a book of short stories dated 1978 although Quinion questions whether this is an endorsement of the soup, "the extract confirms that the soup was at one time a staple of the restaurant menus of British Railways." Despite its disputed origins, there are many recipes, and they often reassert or embellish the supposed myth.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brown Windsor Soup (recipe) ) with Madeira wine〕〔 Recipe from ISBN 9780688112844〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brown Windsor soup」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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