Wow-Wow Sauce
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
- Butter
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- 1 tbsp mushroom ketchup and/or port wine
- 1 tbsp prepared mustard
- Parsley, finely chopped
- 2–3 pickled cucumbers or walnuts, chopped
Ingredients for 12 servings (385 g) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Put a piece of butter as big as an egg into a saucepan. When it is melted, stir in the flour and beef broth.
Stovetop - 2
Add vinegar, mushroom ketchup, and mustard. Simmer together until it is as thick as you wish.
Stovetop - 3
Add the parsley and pickles, and warm them through.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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