Going through my grandmother and great grandmothers handwritten recipe books, I found her recipe for Indian Worcester Sauce 1 Bottle vinegar, 1lb sugar 4 oz rasins, 12 cloves 1 teasp all space, 4 pieces mace 1 oz each of ginger and garlic 8 dry chillis, 2 inches cinnamon All these ingredients except sugar to be ground in vinegar. Boil(?) half the sugar, then add vinegar with other ingredients and boil gentry for a few mins. Sieve when cool and bottle. She also has a recipe for FLIT if anyone remembers that, also a cure for red mange for cats and dogs. The rest of the recipes look quite edible! Arvind Kolhatkar <akolhatkar@rogers.com> wrote: Dear Listers, Worcestershire sauce apparently is a gift of the Raj and India to the world! I accidentally came across this and toss it to the List in case someone knows more about this piece of useless knowledge. A widely reported legend has it that "Lord Marcus Sandys, ex-Governor of Bengal" encountered this sauce while in India in the 1830s, missed it on his return, and commissioned the local apothecaries Lee and Perrin to recreate it. The Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce has the following: its now amount to thousands of pounds a year.> There seems to be a lot of confusion about the names. There never was any 'Lord Marcus Sandys, Governor of Bengal', though several other sites credit him with bringing the recipe from India. I think Sir Charles, Chief Justice of India and uncle of Mrs. Grey mentioned above would be the same as the one mentioned in the following quote, taken from p. 297 of the 'Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, January-April 1832. If this is so, it was his recipe, passed on to his niece Mrs. Grey, came in the possession of Lady Sandys and from her went to the chemist firm Lee and Perrins of Worcester, who eventually made huge profits from it. Lee and Perrins is now a part of the Heinz empire and the sauce continues to bring in a steady flow of profit to Heinz. If this is so, we now know to whom thanks are due for the Worcestershire sauce! THE power of Hindus over property acquired by their ancestors has lately been a subject of discussion in the Supreme Court at Calcutta, where the view reported to have been taken of the question has created considerable anxiety amongst the holders of alienated ancestral property. Sir Charles Grey, the chief justice, it is stated, delivered an opinion, in 1830, that, by the Hindu law, every disposition by a father of his ancestral real property, without the sanction of his sons and grandsons, is null and void. This dictum induced Rajah Rammohun Roy to draw up an essay on the Right of Hindus over Ancestral Property, showing not only that the view taken by the chief justice is contrary to the practice of half a century, but that it is at variance with the law of Bengal. > Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, January 22, 2008. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Looks fun, how about a lively kedegree to start the day? Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Chidley" <ann.chidley@btinternet.com> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:39 AM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Worcestershire sauce > Going through my grandmother and great grandmothers handwritten recipe > books, I found her recipe for Indian Worcester Sauce > 1 Bottle vinegar, 1lb sugar > 4 oz rasins, 12 cloves > 1 teasp all space, 4 pieces mace > 1 oz each of ginger and garlic > 8 dry chillis, 2 inches cinnamon > All these ingredients except sugar to be ground in vinegar. Boil(?) half > the sugar, then add vinegar with other ingredients and boil gentry for a > few mins. Sieve when cool and bottle. > She also has a recipe for FLIT if anyone remembers that, also a cure for > red mange for cats and dogs. The rest of the recipes look quite edible! > > > Arvind Kolhatkar <akolhatkar@rogers.com> wrote: > Dear Listers, > > Worcestershire sauce apparently is a gift of the Raj and India to the > world! I accidentally came across this and toss it to the List in case > someone knows more about this piece of useless knowledge. > > A widely reported legend has it that "Lord Marcus Sandys, ex-Governor of > Bengal" encountered this sauce while in India in the 1830s, missed it on > his return, and commissioned the local apothecaries Lee and Perrin to > recreate it. > > The Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce > has the following: > > its now amount to thousands of pounds a year.> > > There seems to be a lot of confusion about the names. There never was any > 'Lord Marcus Sandys, Governor of Bengal', though several other sites > credit him with bringing the recipe from India. I think Sir Charles, Chief > Justice of India and uncle of Mrs. Grey mentioned above would be the same > as the one mentioned in the following quote, taken from p. 297 of the > 'Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, January-April 1832. If this is so, > it was his recipe, passed on to his niece Mrs. Grey, came in the > possession of Lady Sandys and from her went to the chemist firm Lee and > Perrins of Worcester, who eventually made huge profits from it. Lee and > Perrins is now a part of the Heinz empire and the sauce continues to bring > in a steady flow of profit to Heinz. If this is so, we now know to whom > thanks are due for the Worcestershire sauce! > > THE power of Hindus over property acquired by their ancestors has lately > been a subject of discussion in the Supreme Court at Calcutta, where the > view reported to have been taken of the question has created considerable > anxiety amongst the holders of alienated ancestral property. Sir Charles > Grey, the chief justice, it is stated, delivered an opinion, in 1830, > that, by the Hindu law, every disposition by a father of his ancestral > real property, without the sanction of his sons and grandsons, is null and > void. This dictum induced Rajah Rammohun Roy to draw up an essay on the > Right of Hindus over Ancestral Property, showing not only that the view > taken by the chief justice is contrary to the practice of half a century, > but that it is at variance with the law of Bengal. > > > Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, January 22, 2008. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.9/1237 - Release Date: > 22/01/2008 11:04 >