Wow-wow sauce

Name: Wow-wow sauce
Cuisine: Northern Europe
Ingredients: 25 g (1 oz) butter just under; 25 g (1 oz) flour; 275 ml (½ pint) beef stock from boiled beef or made with stock cubes; 275 ml (½ pint) beef stock from boiled beef or made with stock cubes; 1 tablespoon wine vinegar; 1 tablespoon Worcester sauce; 1 tablespoon mustard; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; 2-3 tablespoons chopped parsley; 2 pickled cucumbers

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

About

For bubble and squeak or hot boiled beef

Wow-wow, being an exclamation of surprise and admiration, is presumably what the eighteenth-century guests of Dr Kit chiner, who invented this sauce, were heard to say when they first tried it.

Ingredients

25 g (1 oz) butter just under
25 g (1

Europe
United Kingdom
Sauce

Method

Melt the butter in a small pan and make a white roux by stirring in the flour and letting it cook a little. Gradually add the beef stock, stirring after each addition, to make a smooth sauce. Season with the wine vinegar, Worcester sauce and mustard and cook gently, covered, for 20 minutes. Taste for seasoning, stir in the chopped parsley, cut the pickled cucumbers into small dice and stir thes