All About Tabasco Sauce

Look in a local grocery store and you are sure to find Tabasco sauce. It 's almost as common as ketchup and mustard. But have you ever wondered where this sauce was created? There are a lot of history behind its development. So read on to discover interesting facts about one of the best known and most popular sauces.

This hot sauce is made mainly of red peppers, vinegar and salt. The peppers are perfect as soon took the red ripe. They are thereforemashed with Avery Island salt and the same day they picked it up. The mixture is then placed in a wooden barrel and allows the age of about three years. Once fully in old age is the sauce is mixed with vinegar and pepper seeds of wheat high and skin are stretched out. And 'now ready to be bottled for distribution in the bottle.

This now world famous sauce created, had to flee when the owner of a banker named Edmund McIlhenny and planting at home during the Civil War. L 'Union army invaded his state and resumed his planting. After the war was over, Mr. McIlhenny returned home and discovered that his home and plantation were looted. He had to start over and build a source of income for himself and his family.

The only thing that the looting was more of a harvest of paprika peppers. Mr. McIlhenny was determined to pepper his life. He developed a spicy sauce with peppers, vinegar and Avery IslandSalt, which was found in abundance on his property. E 'packaged in fancy bottles of sauce and Cologne sent samples to wholesalers.

One of the people, the sample was, this new sauce General Hazard. It was the sauce to his brother, the largest wholesale distributor of food products was the United States. The orders began to come and Edmund McIlhenny was now full-time commercial business pepper sauce.

However, the distribution of Tabasco is not to stop the United States. Seethe possibility of a global market McIlhenny opened an office in London to expand on the European market. It is said that Queen Elizabeth also used the cocktail sauce on their lobster Avery Iceland.

So what began as a disaster for the McIlhenny family turned into a very profitable business. The sauce Louisiana has become a common household spice that is used in a variety of dishes. It 'also in drinks, used as a Bloody Mary. The McIlhenny familystill runs the global operations of its Avery Island, Louisiana home.