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'''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

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==References==
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*''The Cook's Oracle'' by Kitchiner

==External link==
*[http://www.freaknet.org/martin/books/Oracle/800x600/152.html The recipe in ''The Cook's Oracle'']