By: TedW
Back in the 1970s one of my mom's women's magazines had a recipe for BLTs that included peanut butter. I can assure you that it is indeed an excellent addition to a bacon sandwich.
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Hactar, read that two minutes ago: still laughing. I just want to state for the record that if you put anything but HP Sauce on a bacon sandwich... Nope. Bacon, lettuce, tomato, and PEANUT BUTTER. Best...
View ArticleBy: destrius
I'm overly addicted to using oyster sauce in my cooking. When I cook Chinese food I instinctively add it to everything, from vegetables to minced meat to soups to beef. It's main purpose is to be a bit...
View ArticleBy: Hactar
If you go by color, there really are only 4 sauces: Brown, Red, Green, White. Red sauces involve either tomatoes or chiles, green involve green herbs or green chiles/tomatillos, white involve dairy and...
View ArticleBy: Samizdata
Oh, and for those of us that are niftygrocery impaired, I acquired a mild appreciation of this stuff.
View ArticleBy: Katemonkey
Oh, and, also, a butty isn't a sandwich. While it is meat-in-bread, it's usually a white roll (fairly large). See? The butty can also be called a cob, as it is in Nottingham.
View ArticleBy: Samizdata
Packed Lunch: "English, why the hell would you call a sandwich a butty?" Not sure of etymology, but I had always heard of the bacon sarnie myself.
View ArticleBy: Katemonkey
Let's just say there's a reason my profile says "...discover the mystery of The Powerful Brown Sauce" and has so for 10 goddamn years. Brown sauce is a miracle in bottle. (It's especially great on...
View ArticleBy: drlith
Boyfriend squirted partner with brown sauce when she refused to stop reading Fifty Shades of Grey"He said he had every intention of squirting sauce over Miss McCormick, but he now regrets having done...
View ArticleBy: infinitywaltz
There was a thread about Scotland a few months ago that veered into brown sauce territory, and I will reiterate now what I first said there: A1 and HP Brown Sauce are vastly different things. Yes, they...
View ArticleBy: arcticseal
I love currywurst, but everyone looks at me strangely when I mention it.
View ArticleBy: Celsius1414
And while it isn't exactly brown sauce related, I will sing the praises of Currywurst till my dying day.
View ArticleBy: Celsius1414
English, why the hell would you call a sandwich a butty? And suddenly I was transported to visualize an Amish person complaining about sandwich nomenclature. But what would they be doing on MetaFilter?...
View ArticleBy: drlith
I learned to make Swedish Meatballs back in the 1970s and the recipe involved worchestershire sauce, so it may be that that was a pre-soy sauce source of brown/umami additive. Of course, this was in...
View ArticleBy: sgt.serenity
Well in Happy Dave, saltnsauce is one of the pillars of the enlightenment ! I still owe amberglow a bottle of genuine chippy sauce, on the off chance you're reading this - email me your addy and i will...
View ArticleBy: Devils Rancher
I've found that there's nothing brown on my stovetop that can't be made just a little more borwn by the addition of Pickapeppa sauce. It's pretty much replaced Worcestershire in my pantheon of cooking...
View ArticleBy: Mr. Bad Example
English, why the hell would you call a sandwich a butty? I suspect it came from this: "I shouldn't have eaten that sandwich from Londis. I feel kind of....butty."
View ArticleBy: Deathalicious
springload: "needled: Hmm. So the authentic Swedish meatball experience includes soy sauce. Noted. Actually yes! That seems to be the standard these days, although it must have been introduced in the...
View ArticleBy: griphus
Probably gives people on the paleo diet nightmares nocturnal emissions. FTFY
View ArticleBy: Deathalicious
zeoslap: "FYI A butty isn't a bacon sandwich but a bacon butty is. Butty is just slang for sandwich although they often have cooked meats in them (sausage butty, bacon butty etc). Used to be butty was...
View ArticleBy: asperity
Cook's Illustrated often says that soy sauce makes meat taste more "meaty." So it'd make sense in meatballs as a salt upgrade.
View ArticleBy: springload
needled: Hmm. So the authentic Swedish meatball experience includes soy sauce. Noted. Actually yes! That seems to be the standard these days, although it must have been introduced in the last 30 years...
View ArticleBy: benito.strauss
Hmm. So the authentic Swedish meatball experience includes soy sauce. Noted. Well, authentic Swedish coffeecake includes cardamom. My guess is that what drove berserkers made was the blandness of the...
View ArticleBy: TheWhiteSkull
"It's made of brown.""Mined from the earth by the hardscrabble brown miners of North Brownderton." Not anymore it isn't, thank you very much Thatcher.
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BROWN SAUCE- APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR FOOD! BROWN SAUCE- APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR FOOD! BROWN SAUCE- APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR FOOD!
View ArticleBy: generichuman
It may cost £3 a bottle, but my god, Stokes Brown Sauce was a revelation. Now I can't eat HP. Excellent on a bacon butty while hungover. If you're a lover of brown sauce on a bacon butty, try this...
View ArticleBy: Rarebit Fiend
Also surprisingly good as a substitute for putting sugar in your coffee.
View ArticleBy: Gordafarin
This was my first exposure to brown sauce, on Neopets (the game being a mishmash of virtual pets, Welshness, and, bizarrely, Scientology). It wasn't until many years later that I actually tasted the...
View ArticleBy: biffa
2 nights ago, I made a pan gravy that happened to be brown, then I sautéed some mushrooms in butter, then reduced a modicum of red wine with them in the sauté pan. I then folded this reduction into my...
View ArticleBy: Devils Rancher
2 nights ago, I made a pan gravy that happened to be brown, then I sautéed some mushrooms in butter, then reduced a modicum of red wine with them in the sauté pan. I then folded this reduction into my...
View ArticleBy: Happy Dave
Packed Lunch: "English, why the hell would you call a sandwich a butty?"The word butty is a contraction of "bread and butter" that came from northern England, perhaps Yorkshire or Liverpool.
View ArticleBy: Happy Dave
Don't forget the Edinburgh version - Chippy Sauce - basically Daddie's Brown Sauce watered down with vinegar. Sounds horrid, tastes divine. Also inspired this fantastic Scotrail ad campaign, since the...
View ArticleBy: These Birds of a Feather
I could write love letters to A1 sauce... And Pitt's BBQ sauce too at that. Mmmm... Sauce is what makes the world go round in my universe.
View ArticleBy: zeoslap
FYI A butty isn't a bacon sandwich but a bacon butty is. Butty is just slang for sandwich although they often have cooked meats in them (sausage butty, bacon butty etc). Used to be butty was an open...
View ArticleBy: needled
Hmm. So the authentic Swedish meatball experience includes soy sauce. Noted.
View ArticleBy: Faint of Butt
Curious Artificer, you know that what they call "bacon" is different there, right? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's perfectly tasty and excellent with brown sauce, but it's not, y'know, bacon bacon.
View ArticleBy: springload
We swedes also live under the impression that brown sauce is a specialty of our country. There was even a recent TV series called "Brown Sauce Country" ("Landet Brunsås") about Swedish food culture....
View ArticleBy: Curious Artificer
One of my great unrequited missions in life was from the trip my wife and I took to England and Wales in 1997. We drove all over the place and had a thoroughly good time, but at the time I didn't know...
View ArticleBy: devonia
"It's made of brown.""Mined from the earth by the hardscrabble brown miners of North Brownderton."
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