Worcestershire Sauce

This is one of our oldest commercially produced sauces and a direct descendant of the earliest bottled sauces or ketchups. Worcestershire sauce is a thin dark liquid, the composition of which includes vinegar, molasses, sugar, salt, tamarind, shallots and garlic. Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce may look deceptively similar but they are certainly not interchangeable.

Our British sauce has conquered the world and no self-respecting barman from Hong Kong to Cape Town, from Helsinki to San Francisco, would dream of making a Bloody Mary without it. It also makes a brilliant marinade for any meat. For example, to be instantly converted to its charms try mixing it with equal amounts of lemon juice and marinating pork chops in it overnight.