Brown Windsor Soup

This thick meat soup was first concocted in Victorian times, but as a nation we seem to have fallen out of love with it as, with the passage of time, its original robust dimensions were watered down and adulterated until the very name became synonymous with British food as a poor joke, conjuring up the ghost of Hancock saying of his mother’s gravy that ‘at least it moved’.

Perhaps this substantial recipe may help restore its good name. The amounts are for 8, as it hardly seems worth