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
Biko (food) Biko (food) Biko is a sweet rice cake from the Philippines. It is made of coconut milk, brown sugar, and glutinous rice. It is usually topped with "latik" (either or both the coconut curds or the syrupy caramel-like variant). It is a type of "kalamay" dish and is prepared similarly, except the rice grains are not ground into a paste. They are also sometimes packaged and sold as "suman". It is also known as "sinukmani" or "sinukmaneng" in southern Luzon. In the Muslim regions of the Philippines, it is known as "wadjit" in Tausug; "wadit" in Maranao; and "wagit" in