What is brown sauce made of?

Question

I've never had brown sauce, so I can't identify any particular taste. It's always looked slightly odd to me, and there's no vegetable called "brown" - so what exactly is in this stuff? Thanks in advance for your answer. '_'

I've never had brown sauce, so I can't identify any particular taste. It's always looked slightly odd to me, and there's no vegetable called "brown" - so what exactly is in this stuff? And by the way, everyone who has told me to "read the label" - read this... The whole point of Yahoo Answers is to ask questions that people will answer - not to get crappy advice from other people on how best to find an answer myself.

Answer 1

Malt vinegar, tomatoes, molasses, spirit vinegar, glucose,-fructose syrup, dates, sugar, salt, modified maize starch, rye flour, tamarind extract, spices, onion extract. HP Sauce that is.

Answer 2

pooh? not really, but not having a bottle infront of me I can't tell you them all, but it has vinegar, starch, tamarind, molasses, and spices of various sorts, amongst many other things. Sorry but that's all I can remember from reading the bottle a couple of years ago, but it is also a good sauce to have with cold meats! I'm talking H.P not just any common or garden brown sauce..

Answer 3

As an add to these answers. HP Sauce only recently had to put a use by date on the bottles. HP claimed there sauce improved with age and therefore diddnt need a use by date. Srange but true. P.S. I use hp for sexual purposes.[ smear it on the door knob so she cant get out ]

Answer 4

why dont you pick up a bottle on your next visit to tesco and have a look at the ingredients. simple
thank you for the email, was very nice of you. but if you read your own question it will show that you are asking what brown sauce is made of. if you read my answer it will show that i tell u to read the ingredints. the ingredients wiil tell you what brown sauce is made of. wich part of that are you having problems understanding. maybe you should take a grown up with you when you go.

Answer 5

Brown sauce can refer to one of two different things: in the United Kingdom it generally refers to a vinegar, fruit and spice-based condiment, whereas in French cuisine it means a meat stock-based gravy-like sauce. It can occasionally be found in the United States as A1 Steak Sauce. As the name implies, it is used more with steaks than with bacon, which is the traditional usage in the UK.

Brown sauce in UK cuisine
Brown sauce is a condiment popular in the United Kingdom. There exist a number of different brands and generic versions, of which HP Sauce is the most popular - sales of HP Brown Sauce and HP Fruity Sauce account for around 75% of value sales in the UK (source IRI, June 2006). In some regions of the UK, the Daddies Favourite brand is also popular. Both brands have existed since the start of the twentieth century.
A relatively recent addition to the British brown sauce line-up is Branston Brown Sauce. Following controversial plans to move production of Heinz' HP Sauce to Holland in 2006, many patriotic sauce aficionados, including UK Member of Parliament David Ruffley, moved allegiance from HP to Branston, which is produced in Bury St. Edmunds, UK.
All feature a malt vinegar base blended with fruit and spices, with tamarind and worcestershire sauce being indispensable ingredients.
Brown sauce is traditionally eaten with meals and dishes such as Full English breakfasts, bacon sandwiches, chips, and baked beans. Around Edinburgh a combination of spirit vinegar and brown sauce, known simply as "sauce" or "chippie sauce", is popular on fish and chips.


In popular culture
* Chef Brown Sauce features prominently in the 2003 Irish film Intermission starring Cillian Murphy and Colin Farrell.

Brands of brown sauce
* HP Sauce
* Daddies
* Branston Brown Sauce
* Chop sauce
Most UK supermarkets also sell generic own-label brown sauces.

Brown sauce in French cuisine
In classical French cuisine a brown sauce generally refers to a sauce with a meat stock base, thickened by reduction and sometimes the addition of a browned roux, similar in some ways to but more involved than a gravy. The classic mother sauce examples are espagnole sauce and demi-glace, though other derivatives of those two exist.

Answer 6

I'll take a wild guess and say either onion or mushroom.

Any brown sauces I've ever made were either a mushroom or onion based sauce.

Answer 7

do you mean like hp and ok and daddies? It's the same as tomato sauce, it's made of tomatoes and what makes it more tangy and makes it brown is in the way the tomatoes are prepared. Brown sauce is fermented tomatoes.

Answer 8

My mum makes her own brown sauce. Its usually fruit based, with vinegar.

Mostly she uses plums. Sometimes she uses apples.

You just cook them a lot with vinegar. I used to hate it when she made it as it stank the house out.

Answer 9

A sauce made from butter and flour browned together and stock.

Answer 10

basically brown sauce is composed of gravy and vinegar