Wow-Wow Sauce (sometimes referred to as Bow wow sauce) is a

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for which the first known recipe was published by

William Kitchiner William Kitchiner M.D. (1775–1827) was an English optician, amateur musician and cook. A celebrity chef, he was a household name during the 19th century, and his 1817 cookbook, '' The Cook's Oracle'', was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and ...

of London in

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. It contains

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, wine

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, parsley,

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s or pickled walnuts, English

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and

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in a base of beef stock, flour and butter. A recipe appears in '' Enquire Within Upon Everything'' (88th edition, 1894). It is parodied as a sauce of the same name in the ''

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'' novels of

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, in which ingredients including sulphur and saltpetre render it highly explosive. A variant of the above real-world recipe is published in ''

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'' and ''

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''.

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The recipe in ''The Cook's Oracle''
Sauces British cuisine {{condiment-stub

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