Wow-Wow sauce

Wow-Wow Sauce (sometimes referred to as Bow wow sauce)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> is a sauce for which the first known recipe was published by William Kitchiner of London in 1817.<ref>Template:Cite book #328, Wow Wow Sauce, for Bouilli Beef.</ref> 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).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

It is parodied as a sauce of the same name in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett, in which ingredients including sulfur and saltpetre render it highly explosive. A variant of the above real-world recipe is published in The Discworld Companion<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Nanny Ogg's Cookbook.

See also

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Further reading

• The Cook's Oracle by Kitchiner Template:ISBN
• The Discworld Companion by Pratchett and Stephen Briggs

External links

• The recipe in The Cook's Oracle