Brown Windsor soup 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. Bobby's of Queens Road (Bristol) advertised "Potage Brown Windsor" (under the "soup" heading) on its menu dated 13 February 1931. The Scottish department store Isaac Benzie advertised "Brown Windsor Soup" in a menu published 14 December 1933. Despite
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