Wow-Wow Sauce (sometimes referred to as Bow wow sauce)[1] is a sauce reportedly created by William Kitchiner of London in the early 19th century.[2] 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).[3]
It is parodied as a sauce of the same name in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett. A variant of the above real-world recipe is published in The Discworld Companion[4] and Nanny Ogg's Cookbook.
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