Brown Windsor soup Christie's Poirot, episode "Hercule Poirot's Christmas", Poirot laments to a waiter that the Brown Windsor Soup he has been served "doesn't look very... delicieux". In "Basil the Rat," the last episode of Fawlty Towers, the upper-class couple who have the rat under their table order a Windsor Soup as their starter. Notes Citations Brown Windsor soup Brown Windsor soup is a British meat soup that is said by conventional wisdom to have been popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, although well documented evidence for the soup does not exist until the 1920s and 30s. In any case, "Brown Windsor
Butter dish Butter dish A butter dish is defined as "a usually round or rectangular dish often with a drainer and a cover for holding butter at table". Before refrigerators existed, a covered dish made of crystal, silver, or china housed the butter. The first butter dish was made by Simpson, Hall, Miller, and Co. around 1880 in Connecticut, out of silver. These butter dishes were made to hold the traditional round shape of butter at the time and came with an "ice chamber" to keep the butter cold. Another type of butter dish, a French butter dish, keeps butter fresh by