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Piquant spicy fruit sauces rendered sharply sour with [[verjuice]] or vinegar featured prominently in [[medieval cuisine]].<ref>Peterson, p. 11</ref> Cumberland sauce, thought to have originated in the 19th century, is in that tradition. The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' describes it as "a piquant sauce served esp. with cold meat".<ref>{{Cite OED|Cumberland sauce}}</ref> The dictionary's earliest citation for a sauce of that name is 1878, but it is mentioned in ''[[The Times]]'' six years earlier, reporting a banquet in Berlin in September 1872, attended by the Emperors [[William I, German Emperor|Wilhelm I]], [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]] and [[Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II]], at which ''hure de sanglier'' (boar's head) was served with "sauce Cumberland".<ref>"The Imperial Festivities", ''The Times'', 10 September 1872, p. 4</ref> In 2009 a food historian, Janet Clarkson, identified an American citation from 1856, as well as details of some sauces from earlier in the 19th century that bore similarities to what became known as Cumberland sauce:<ref name=jc>Clarkson, Janet. [http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2009/09/cumberland-sauce.html "Cumberland Sauce"], ''Old Foodie'', 15 September 2009</ref> [[William Kitchiner]]'s, ''Cook's Oracle'', first published in 1817, includes an unnamed "Wine sauce for Venison or Hare" flavoured and coloured with redcurrant jelly in which [[claret]] or [[port (wine)|port]] are mixed with redcurrant jelly.<ref>Kitchiner, p. 299</ref> |
Piquant spicy fruit sauces rendered sharply sour with [[verjuice]] or vinegar featured prominently in [[medieval cuisine]].<ref>Peterson, p. 11</ref> Cumberland sauce, thought to have originated in the 19th century, is in that tradition. The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' describes it as "a piquant sauce served esp. with cold meat".<ref>{{Cite OED|Cumberland sauce}}</ref> The dictionary's earliest citation for a sauce of that name is 1878, but it is mentioned in ''[[The Times]]'' six years earlier, reporting a banquet in Berlin in September 1872, attended by the Emperors [[William I, German Emperor|Wilhelm I]], [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]] and [[Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II]], at which ''hure de sanglier'' (boar's head) was served with "sauce Cumberland".<ref>"The Imperial Festivities", ''The Times'', 10 September 1872, p. 4</ref> In 2009 a food historian, Janet Clarkson, identified an American citation from 1856, as well as details of some sauces from earlier in the 19th century that bore similarities to what became known as Cumberland sauce:<ref name=jc>Clarkson, Janet. [http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2009/09/cumberland-sauce.html "Cumberland Sauce"], ''Old Foodie'', 15 September 2009</ref> [[William Kitchiner]]'s, ''The Cook's Oracle'', first published in 1817, includes an unnamed "Wine sauce for Venison or Hare" flavoured and coloured with redcurrant jelly in which [[claret]] or [[port (wine)|port]] are mixed with redcurrant jelly.<ref>Kitchiner, p. 299</ref> |
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[[Elizabeth David]] found a recipe from 1853 by [[Alexis Soyer]] for what, she says "is without doubt Cumberland sauce":<ref name=ed>David, pp. 70–72</ref> |
[[Elizabeth David]] found a recipe from 1853 by [[Alexis Soyer]] for what, she says "is without doubt Cumberland sauce":<ref name=ed>David, pp. 70–72</ref> |
Cumberland sauce is a sauce made with redcurrant jelly, mustard, pepper and salt, blanched orange peel, and port wine. The food writer Elizabeth David described it as "the best of all sauces for cold meat – ham, pressed beef, tongue, venison, boar's head or pork brawn".[1]
Piquant spicy fruit sauces rendered sharply sour with verjuice or vinegar featured prominently in medieval cuisine.[2] Cumberland sauce, thought to have originated in the 19th century, is in that tradition. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "a piquant sauce served esp. with cold meat".[3] The dictionary's earliest citation for a sauce of that name is 1878, but it is mentioned in The Times six years earlier, reporting a banquet in Berlin in September 1872, attended by the Emperors Wilhelm I, Franz Joseph and Alexander II, at which hure de sanglier (boar's head) was served with "sauce Cumberland".[4] In 2009 a food historian, Janet Clarkson, identified an American citation from 1856, as well as details of some sauces from earlier in the 19th century that bore similarities to what became known as Cumberland sauce:[5] William Kitchiner's, The Cook's Oracle, first published in 1817, includes an unnamed "Wine sauce for Venison or Hare" flavoured and coloured with redcurrant jelly in which claretorport are mixed with redcurrant jelly.[6]
Elizabeth David found a recipe from 1853 by Alexis Soyer for what, she says "is without doubt Cumberland sauce":[1]
Soyer described his recipe as "the German method of making a sauce to be eaten with boar's head,[7] and David followed up the German connection with mention of the popular belief that the sauce was named for the Hanoverian prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.[1] Though commenting that this supposed origin was "as good as any and better than some", she added that it was odd that Cumberland sauce is not mentioned in any 19th-century cookery book, including those by Eliza Acton, Mrs Beeton and Charles Elmé Francatelli. The first printed recipe for Cumberland sauce identified by David was in a French book about English food, published in 1904. She found further French associations: Henry Babinski described a similar sauce in his Gastronomie pratique (1907),[1] and Auguste Escoffier popularised it and printed his recipe in the "Sauces anglaises froides" section of his Ma cuisine (1934), particularly commending the sauce as an accompaniment to cold venison.[8]
In David's view it is "the best of all sauces for cold meat – ham, pressed beef, tongue, venison, boar's head or pork brawn".[1] More recently, Michel Roux wrote of Cumberland sauce that it was his favourite sauce for terrines, pâtés and game. "We often serve it at The Waterside Inn and I never tire of it. It adds an entirely new dimension to a pork pie bought from the delicatessen".[9]
A Polish variant omits mustard and wine, adds horseradish, and fries the orange zest before adding it to the mixture.[10] A New Zealand version adds grated beetroot.[11] Recipes for more or less the generic version on Soyer's lines appear in cookery books from, among other countries, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and the US.[12]