Sometimes just one ingredient completely changes the taste of the dish. Interesting and unusual sauces allow you to re-emphasize, reveal the taste of the dish from an unexpected angle. Worcester or Worcester sauce is one such “magic” ingredient.
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Appearance story
This sauce is traditionally considered Indian, but actually Worcester sauce was created by chance in the first half of the nineteenth century in the town of Worcester. One British lord returned to his homeland from Bengal and, after a short time, yearned for sharp Indian seasonings. Therefore, he invited the owners of a neighboring pharmacy to make for him something resembling a traditional sauce. They produced a mixture that they sold without much success in their pharmacy, but it had such a strong smell that they decided to send it to the warehouse. As a result, the barrel with the fruits of the experiments of British pharmacists lay in the warehouse for two years until they remembered it. During this time, the mixture miraculously turned into a wonderful sauce, which was bottled and started to be sold. Since then Worcester or Worcester sauce has become an integral part of many dishes.
The base of the Worcester sauce consists of vinegar, fish and sugar. This is already a rather unusual combination. But these components are a small part of the composition of this sauce. A distinctive sweet and sour taste and rich aroma of the sauce is achieved thanks to a complex mixture of tamarind, onions, meat extract, chili pepper, curry, allspice, ginger, lemon, celery, horseradish, garlic, black pepper, bay leaf, nutmeg, asafoetida, shallots, corn syrup and molasses. This mixture makes Worcester sauce unique, so do not try to replace it with ordinary soy sauce on the advice of "experts", because the effect will be completely different.