Kitchen Bouquet is a browning and seasoning sauce primarily composed of caramel with vegetable flavorings. It has been used as a flavoring addition for gravies and other foods since the late 19th century. It is currently produced by the Hidden Valley or HV Food Products Company.
Kitchen Bouquet was manufactured in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the Palisade Manufacturing Company of
West Hoboken,
New Jersey
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. An advertisement in a 1903 edition of The Boston Cooking School Magazine indicated that Kitchen Bouquet, then known as "Tournade's Kitchen Bouquet," had been "a favorite for 30 years." It was one of the products featured in the United States exhibit at the
Paris Exposition of 1889.
Its ingredients include
caramel, vegetable base (water, carrots, onions, celery, parsnips, turnips, salt, parsley, spices),
sodium benzoate
Sodium benzoate is the sodium salt of benzoic acid, widely used as a food preservative (with an E number of E211) and a pickling agent. It appears as a white crystalline chemical with the formula C6H5COONa.
Production
Sodium benzoate is commo ...
and
sulfiting agents.
Kitchen Bouquet is also used by
food stylist
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s for a variety of appearance effects, including 'coffee' made by adding a few drops to a cup of water
and lending a browned appearance to poultry.
See also
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Caramel color
Caramel color or caramel coloring is a water-soluble food coloring. It is made by heat treatment of carbohydrates (sugars), in general in the presence of acids, alkalis, or salts, in a process called caramelization. It is more fully oxidized than ...
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Food coloring
Food coloring, or color additive, is any dye, pigment, or substance that imparts color when it is added to food or drink. They come in many forms consisting of liquids, powders, gels, and pastes. Food coloring is used in both commercial food ...
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Gravy
Gravy is a sauce often made from the juices of meats that run naturally during cooking and often thickened with wheat flour or corn starch for added texture. The gravy may be further coloured and flavoured with gravy salt (a simple mix of salt ...
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