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'''Wow-Wow Sauce''' (sometimes referred to as '''Bow wow sauce''')<ref>{{cite news | url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_product=UKNB&p_text_direct-0=document_id=(%20109BDF642DCFDBB7%20)&p_docid=109BDF642DCFDBB7&p_theme=aggdocs&p_queryname=109BDF642DCFDBB7&f_openurl=yes&p_nbid=R53K50QDMTM1NTYxMjUzNy44NTg2NzA6MTo4OnJmLTE5MDE1&&p_multi=GRDC |title=Anyone for clapshot? A glossary of great and obscure dishes |newspaper=The Guardian |date=27 April 2005 |access-date=15 December 2012}}</ref> is a sauce for which the first known recipe was published by [[William Kitchiner]] of London in 1817.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kitchiner|first1=William|title=Apicius Redivivus; or The Cook's Oracle: …|date=1817|publisher=Samuel Bagster|location=London, England|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.rsmcz4;view=1up;seq=301}} #328, Wow Wow Sauce, for Bouilli Beef.</ref> It contains [[port wine|port]], wine vinegar, [[parsley]], [[pickled cucumber]]s or [[pickled walnuts]], English [[Mustard (condiment)|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>{{cite web|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10766 |title=''Enquire Within Upon Everything'' |publisher=Houlston and Sons | date=1894 |access-date=15 December 2012 |author=Anonymous}}</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>{{cite book|last=Pratchett|first=Terry|title=The Discworld Companion|year=1997|publisher=Vista|isbn=0575600306|pages=450–452}}</ref> and ''[[Nanny Ogg's Cookbook]]''.

==See also==
* {{portal-inline|Food}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
*''The Cook's Oracle'' by Kitchiner {{ISBN|1-59605-819-6}}
*''The Discworld Companion'' by Pratchett and [[Stephen Briggs]]

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

[[Category:Sauces]]
[[Category:British cuisine]]

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