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"Shanghai Specialty": Is spicy soy sauce really soy sauce?

Worcestershire sauce is not soy sauce.

Seasoning Worcestershire sauce is made from vegetables such as kelp, carrots, onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger, and peppers, plus pepper, tangerine peel, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, cloves, and Sichuan peppercorns. It is prepared by boiling spices such as fennel, fennel and thyme, then adding salt, monosodium glutamate, sucrose, glacial acetic acid and caramel color.

The body is like soy sauce, but there is no soy sauce component. It is a spicy, sour, unique and complex seasoning that is necessary for cooking European and American dishes and their accompaniments.

In the West, Worcestershire sauce is widely used in the preparation of various dishes and other foods, especially beef dishes and products. Worcestershire sauce can also be used in drinks such as Bloody Marys and tomato juice. In Shanghai, Worcestershire sauce was promoted from Western restaurants to other foods in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Worcestershire sauce is used in fried pork chops and borscht in Shanghai’s Western food. Local foods such as fried steamed buns, pork ribs rice cakes, and fried hairtail are sometimes dipped in spicy soy sauce.

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Worcestershire sauce originated in the 1830s. According to legend, Lord Marcus Sandys, the British Governor in Bengal, obtained a spicy sauce recipe in India. After returning home, he gave the recipe and bulk orders to local chemists John Wheeley Lea and William Palin. Perrins).

If you are not satisfied with the taste of the finished product during testing, discard it. However, the sauce was later taken out for inspection. Li and Pai Lin found that a layer of fermented juice oozed out of the spicy sauce noodles. They tasted it delicious and introduced it to the market, which was well received.

However, the latest research points out that there is no "Lord Sands" in the official history, and there is no Governor of Bengal named Sands; in the 1830s, there was only Baroness Sands of Worcestershire.

Researchers theorize that Baroness Sands obtained the formula from the Gray family, and that Charles Gray obtained the formula while serving as the Chief Justice of India. Afterwards, the Sands family sold the formula to Li Pailin, but as a noble, they had to avoid the Baroness's true identity in advertisements, so they made up a widely circulated story.

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