Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piquant sauce of vinegar, molasses, anchovies, tamarind concentrate, and other ingredients.
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- noun An
English condiment ; a thinpiquant sauce used as atable sauce, to flavourcasseroles etc. and as aningredient inbloody Marys .
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- noun a savory sauce of vinegar and soy sauce and spices
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Worcestershire, a county in west-central England where it was first made.]
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chained_bear commented on the word Worcestershire sauce
"Crosse & Blackwell were soon selling nearly forty different pickles and sauces; Mr Bird invented instant custard powder for his delicate wife who could not take eggs but loved the sweet, creamy sauce that had taken Regency tables by storm. Colman's mustard removed from cooks the eye-watering process of grinding seeds, curry powders were sold widely, and a returning Governor of Bengal pressed not a cook, but a local chemist, Lea & Perrins, to invent Worcestershire, or 'Indian', sauce, so successful that its sales rose from 636 bottles in 1842 to 30,000 a decade later. New industrial methods created 'Dutched' or powdered chocolate, removing part of the butter fat to make it easier to dissolve, and Cadbury's factory at Bournville and Fry's followed soon after. Arrowroot thickened everything it touched and centrifugal machines began to produce the low-cost, high-quality granular sugar that would consign to history the paraphernalia for breaking down and grinding great sugar cones."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 276-277
January 18, 2017