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
Timbale (food) crust can be sheet pastry, slices of bread, rice, even slices of vegetable. Sartu di Riso is a rice crust timbale. Timballo di Melanzana uses overlapping strips of eggplant. The filling can be a wide range of pre-cooked meats, sausages, cheeses, vegetables, and shaped pastas combined with herbs and spices and red or white "gravy", thickened with breadcrumbs if necessary. The assembled dish is then baked to brown the crust and heat the filling to serving temperature. Timbale (food) In cooking, timbale () derived from the word for "drum", also known as Timballo, can refer to either a kind of