Brown Windsor soup 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 soup became shorthand for awful food," and was used as a prop by comics in the post war years. It is unclear whether this often-written-about soup is of Victorian origin. The food writer Alan Davidson in "The Oxford Companion to Food" (2006) refers to an elaborate late Victorian recipe in Garrett's "Encyclopedia of
Scouse (food) to bone dealers after being used and for the same price as originally purchased from the butcher ). The dish is also popular in Leigh with local residents sometimes being referred to as 'Lobbygobblers'. A variant, "lobscaws" or "lobsgaws", is a traditional dish in North Wales, normally made with braising or stewing steak, potatoes and any other vegetable available; when made with mutton, it is known as "cawl". The food was traditionally regarded as food for farmers and the working-class people of North Wales, but is now popular as a dish throughout Wales. The recipe was brought by the canal