Wow-Wow sauce
Wow-Wow Sauce is a sauce, apparently created by Dr. William Kitchiner in the early 19th century. It contains port, wine vinegar, pickled cucumbers or Pickled Walnuts, English mustard and mushroom ketchup in a base of beef stock, flour and butter.
Ingredients
- Parsley
- Pickled cucumbers or walnuts
- Butter
- Flour
- Beef broth
- Vinegar
- Port wine
- Mushroom ketchup
- Mustard
Procedure
- Chop parsley leaves finely
- Take two or three pickled cucumbers, or walnuts, and divide into small squares
- Put a piece of butter as big as an egg into a saucepan, when it is melted, stir in a tablespoonful of fine flour, and half a pint of the broth of the beef
- Add a tablespoonful of vinegar, one of mushroom ketchup, or port wine, or both, and a tablespoonful of mustard
- Simmer together until it is as thick as you wish
- Put in the parsley and pickles and warm them
References
Wow-Wow sauce at Project Gutenberg
- The Cook's Oracle by Kitchiner
