Chef Brown Sauce
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| Type | Brown sauce |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Ireland |
| Invented | 1921 |
Chef Brown Sauce is a brown sauce established by the company "Chef" in the middle of the 20th century, after the brown sauce market had receded somewhat due to the lifting of certain ketchup production restrictions, but nonetheless managed to gain a foothold in the market. The ingredients include; Vinegar, Sugar, Apples, Barley Malt Vinegar, Water, Tomatoes, Modified Maize Starch, Oranges, Salt, Spices, and Colour: Caramel (E150D). The sauce is gluten free.
History of brown sauce
[edit]Brown sauce is a dark colored, savoury, tomato based sauce created in the United Kingdom in the 1800s. The ingredients include dates, molasses, tamarinds, tomatoes, cloves, and cayenne pepper.[1] Brown sauce was typically paired with bland foods such as potatoes because its natural tendency is to overpower its neighboring tastes. The sauce also usually made its most abundant appearances during the winter months with hearty meals like stew and beef.[2]
About Chef
[edit]The Chef brand was originally established in 1921 with a variety of products from pickles to Barbeque sauce.[3] The original producer of these products was "Willwoods", which began by making vinegar and barbeque sauces throughout Ireland.[4]
Irish people began to use Chef sauces in recipes, and this habit it was passed down from generation to generation.[5] At some point, production of the Chef brand products was moved out of Ireland and it wasn't until 2015, after ValeoFood had taken over the brand, that the company was then reestablished in Ireland. During this time, Valeo released a new model of bottle for the Chef brand to celebrate its return to Ireland.[6]
ValeoFood Group
[edit]ValeoFoods is an Irish-based company.[7]
In popular culture
[edit]In the 2003 film Intermission, grocery store employees John and Oscar rob a warehouse of a crate of Chef Brown Sauce and spend the rest of the movie trying to finish off all the sauce. They pour it into their tea, make Chef sandwiches, etc.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Naylor, Tony (2015-01-05). "Brown sauce sales are falling: has Britain finally come to its senses?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ^ "HP Sauce: The Brown English Condiment You Need To Be Using". Huffington Post. 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ^ "Our Brands Heritage".
- ^ Mulcahy, John (2022). "Relish, Condiment, Kitchen: Bastions of Irish Food Practice for Fourteen Hundred Years". Dublin Gastronomy Symposium: 204.
- ^ Leeann. "Chef Sauce | Irish foods to your store | Middlesex | OKane Irish Foods UK". www.okaneirishfoods.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ^ "Chef sauce comes home with €7m Valeo investment". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ^ "Irish group Valeo Foods (CapVest) buys Dolciaria Val d'Enza from Alto Capital III fund - BeBeez.it". bebeez.it. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ^ Intermission. Directed by John Crowley. Performed by Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy. United States: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2004. DVD.
