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BigmanPigman

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6. Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce has sardines/anchovies in it.
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 10:42 PM
Mar 2021

A fermented fish sauce called garum was a staple of Greco-Roman cuisine and of the Mediterranean economy of the Roman Empire, as the first-century encyclopaedist Pliny the Elder writes in his Historia Naturalis and the fourth–fifth-century Roman culinary text Apicius includes garum in its recipes. The use of similar fermented anchovy sauces in Europe can be traced back to the 17th century.

The original ingredients in a bottle of Worcestershire sauce sold were:

Barley malt vinegar
Spirit vinegar
Molasses
Sugar
Salt
Anchovies
Tamarind extract
Onions (originally shallots)
Garlic
Spice
Flavourings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce

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