{"id":99821,"date":"2026-04-30T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99821"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:25:33","slug":"the-history-of-brown-sauce-hp-sauce-a1-sauce-ok-sauce-and-chef-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/30\/the-history-of-brown-sauce-hp-sauce-a1-sauce-ok-sauce-and-chef-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of BROWN SAUCE: HP Sauce, A1 Sauce, OK Sauce and Chef Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/STad_XJP6KU?si=YRW6aO1rwocS2yiC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tweedy Misc<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 7 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how British &#8220;brown sauce&#8221; came about? What is it made from? Who invented it? When was it invented? Which brown sauce is the oldest? When did we start calling it &#8220;brown sauce&#8221;? <\/p>\n<p>In this video we look into what exactly brown sauce is (and isn&#8217;t), we look into ingredients of a number of iconic brands (and some supermarket own brands) and explore the history of the five brown sauces which defined the category: A1 Sauce, OK Sauce, HP Sauce, Daddies Favourite Sauce and Chef Sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Some links to Wikipedia etc in case it helps figure out what this is all about:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqblBaTk9vOFJ4d0ZWSmFmd0VDeG10SXViNzBNQXxBQ3Jtc0trQ2VVMXZ1eng5WHZMTUFQSjN5Q3BVTzlWYWlwbHdPTzNZRW45YXdpRFRNRmN2ZU55Ni1xMlVGX0t5akR2MW81TFJkcWUtbFNFQ2UtQkFUZE9tRUtpalkxUDItYlNjTFVNNUpGMWM5MXYzOTRLWkMyRQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBrown_sauce&#038;v=STad_XJP6KU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brown_s&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HP_Sauce\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HP_Sauce<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A.1._Sauce\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A.1._Sauce<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daddies\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daddies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OK_Sauce\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OK_Sauce<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXZsanJzQkNkY2lCcDFFSWtaY2V5SUxqcl8zUXxBQ3Jtc0tseTRzZGdWMVFpVmJ1S1VVZnB6M25OaVdKQlByY3hhaTRSQUNnMG1CNXJGbmxKSENRTFl1aDhTajNCaFdUTkRzYURpVlFBTDltRVpGN29jeExqQ3l3NHY3M25KS2FFNWFCUmVlbk92VXphM1lpUXBDTQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FChef_Brown_Sauce&#038;v=STad_XJP6KU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chef_Br&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re finding the wobbling bottles are a problem for you, here&#8217;s a version of the video without any wobbling:    \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ntyZtToI40\" target=\"_blank\">History of Brown Sauce (No Wobbling!)<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>This video was made using Davinci Resolve 20, with a lot of the still images made using Canva.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:16 What is brown sauce?<br \/>\n2:33 Supermarket own brand brown sauces<br \/>\n4:02 History of brown sauce<br \/>\n4:48 A1 Sauce<br \/>\n10:49 OK Sauce<br \/>\n15:31 HP Sauce<br \/>\n17:06 Daddies Favourite Sauce<br \/>\n19:06 Chef Sauce<br \/>\n23:50 Conclusion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweedy Misc Published 7 Nov 2025 Have you ever wondered how British &#8220;brown sauce&#8221; came about? What is it made from? Who invented it? When was it invented? Which brown sauce is the oldest? When did we start calling it &#8220;brown sauce&#8221;? In this video we look into what exactly brown sauce is (and isn&#8217;t), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,831,74,7],"tags":[97,1276,1523],"class_list":["post-99821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-business","category-food","category-history","tag-advertising","tag-cooking","tag-greatexhibition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pY1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99822,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99821\/revisions\/99822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}