Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce

I was dragged inside feeling far from happy dressed in my 'best' clothes that I hated beyond words. Pops still smiled at me. He was always on my side. "And you can stop your smiling and get your tie on", Gran grumpily instructed him. Someone 'important' was coming to tea, so Mum, Dad and I had been summoned to attend. I think it was an MP or a Mayor or someone similar, I can't remember now. But I know it meant Gran's special teaset was out, the one with the blue pictures, and there was the inevitable salad, with pink plastic servers, and home baked cakes ready on the table. I was warned, on ... more

When a bottle is not only several years past its use-by-date but also claims to be "By Appointment to His Majesty the King" you know you haven’t spring cleaned in a while. My mother and I found a bottle of Lea and Perrins in the larder when we cleaned it out one spring when I was six or seven. Dad said its just that he “doesn’t eat a lot of cheese on toast.” (Mum and I now reckon it had somehow been missed and was in the cupboard from when the previous occupier, an elderly lady had lived in the house. My mother didn’t remember buying it anyway, and she’s not that old!) The History of the God ... more

I'm reviewing Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. EXPERT BLENDERS SINCE 1837. MATURED 18 MONTHS. It comes in 150 ml glass bottles & costs around the £1.20p mark in TESCO. Available in any decent supermarket for not much more than that. It contains,Malt Vinegar (from Barley),Spirit Vinegar ,Molasses ,Sugar ,Salt ,Anchovies (Fish) ,Tamarind Extract ,Onions ,Garlic ,Spice ,Flavouring. *It contains Gluten......Barley....& fish ,so if you have an allergic reaction to any of those then give this a miss.* NO artificial colours or preservatives. Good. There are other Worcestershire sauces on the ... more

I vividly remember by school days, when I was in my early teens, everytime I used to buy a packet of “ready salted” crisps, there was always something that had to be sprinkled all over them before I began to devour them. That something was Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. Lea & Perrins has been around for ages and is the sauce that has literally put Worcestershire on the map worldwide. It was first commercially produced way back in 1837 and was invented by two close friends called John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins. What makes Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce so ... more

Why I Got This I have been buying Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce on and off for many years after being introduced to it by my father when I was a child. I have always called it just 'Worcester Sauce' but the correct name is Worcestershire Sauce. The Brand From their website: 'Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce was first created by the Worcester chemists John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins. They devised the recipe in the 1830s when Lord Sandys - a nobleman of the area - was eager to recreate an exciting taste he had acquired on his travels to Bengal. When Lea & Perrins was first ... more