Wow-Wow Sauce (sometimes referred to as Bow wow sauce) is a sauce for which the first known recipe was published by William Kitchiner of London in 1817. It contains port, wine vinegar, parsley, pickled cucumbers or pickled walnuts, English mustard and mushroom ketchup in a base of beef stock, flour and butter. A recipe appears in Enquire Within Upon Everything (88th edition, 1894).
It is parodied as a sauce of the same name in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett, in which ingredients including sulphur and saltpetre render it highly explosive. A variant of the above real-world recipe is published in The Discworld Companion and Nanny Ogg's Cookbook.
See also
References
- "Anyone for clapshot? A glossary of great and obscure dishes". The Guardian. April 27, 2005. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
- Kitchiner, William (1817). Apicius Redivivus; or The Cook's Oracle: …. London, England: Samuel Bagster. #328, Wow Wow Sauce, for Bouilli Beef.
- Anonymous (1894). "Enquire Within Upon Everything". Houlston and Sons. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
- Pratchett, Terry (1997). The Discworld Companion. Vista. pp. 450–452. ISBN 0575600306.
Further reading
- The Cook's Oracle by Kitchiner ISBN 1-59605-819-6
- The Discworld Companion by Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
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