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  HP Sauce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HP Sauce is a condiment, a popular brown sauce produced in Aston, Birmingham, England by HP Foods.
Garton called the sauce HP partly due to its local reputation, but also because he had heard that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament had begun serving it (indeed, bottle labels today carry a picture of the Palace of Westminster).
HP Sauce became known as "Wilson's Gravy" in the 1960s and 1970s after Harold Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HP_Sauce   (535 words)

  
 HP Sauce: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HP Sauce is a condiment condiment quick summary:
Garton came to call the sauce HP because he had heard that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] had begun serving it.
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hp/hp_sauce1.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Brown sauce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brown sauce can refer to one of two different things: in the United Kingdom it generally refers to a vinegar, fruit and spice-based condiment, whereas in French cuisine it means a meat stock-based gravy-like sauce.
In classical French cuisine a brown sauce generally refers to a sauce with a meat stock base, thickened by reduction and sometimes the addition of a browned roux, similar in some ways to but more involved than a gravy.
Brown sauce is usually eaten as an adjunct to hot or cold savoury food, or used as an ingredient in soups or stews.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brown_sauce   (221 words)

  
 Waitrose.com - HP Sauce - Waitrose Food Illustrated
HP Sauce was invented at the end of the 19th century by Mr FG Garton, a Nottingham grocer.
The HP stood for Houses of Parliament, as it was rumoured that the sauce had been seen gracing the tables of one of the dining rooms there.
So by putting HP Sauce onto the market in 1903 (the launch was delayed by the death of Queen Victoria), the company was bringing a privilege enjoyed by the rich to the tables of the masses.
www.waitrose.com /food_drink/wfi/ingredients/herbsspicesseasoningsandcondiments/9904112.asp   (345 words)

  
 HP Sauce is a popular brown sauce produced in Birmingham, England. It has a malt vinegar base blended with fruit and ...
HP Sauce is a popular brown sauce produced in Birmingham, England.
Garton sold the recipe and HP brand for the sum of £150 and the settlement of some unpaid bills to Edwin Samson Moore.
HP Sauce became known as `Wilson's Gravy' in the 1960s and '70s after Harold Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister who, it was alleged, used to cover his food with the sauce.
www.birminghamuk.com /wikipedia/HP_Sauce.htm   (156 words)

  
 HP Sauce: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HP Sauce is a condiment (condiment: A preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment), a popular brown sauce produced in Aston (Aston: aston is a district of birmingham in england, though when both were towns it was...
The sauce is particularly enjoyed as an accompaniment to bacon (bacon: Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried) rashers (rashers: A commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America), with TV advertisements re-enforcing this association.
Garton came to call the sauce HP because he had heard that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament (Houses of Parliament: The building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet) had begun serving it.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/hp_sauce1   (439 words)

  
 Art of Flavor - Flavor Workshop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The first bottles of HP Sauce were produced in Birmingham, UK in the early 19th Century and acquired the HP name after they were spotted being used to liven up food in the restaurant at the Westminster House of Parliament.
Termed the ‘remarkable sauce’ for the incorporation of unusual ingredients, such as Tamarinds from India and dates and aromatic spices from the Far East, the sauce was launched across England under the HP brand in 1903.
HP Sauce soon made the journey to North America by way of ships’ chandlers and immigrating chefs to become the favorite of European immigrants in the U.S.
www.artofflavor.com /faq.php   (503 words)

  
 GlobalGophers | UK FOOD | HP Sauce
HP sauce (also known as "Brown Sauce") is a true British condiment.
Legend has it that HP stands for Houses of Parliament after its inventor heard that it was served in the restaurant in Westminster.
The Labour Prime Minister enjoyed HP Sauce and his wife Mary once said that, "If Harold has a fault, it is that he will drown everything in HP Sauce." After this comment HP sauce was known as "Harold's Gravy" for a brief time.
www.globalgophers.com /UKfoodarticles/hpsauce.htm   (233 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Heinz buys HP sauce in £470m deal
Buying HP Foods was "consistent with our strategy to drive growth in our profitable and expanding core condiments and sauces category", he said.
The deal gives Heinz a perpetual licence to market Amoy Asian sauces in Europe, enabling it to tap European consumers' taste for newer, piquant flavours like fl bean as well as HP sauce, which is associated with more traditional pie-shop meals.
Lea & Perrins and HP sauce are exported to 75 countries.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4110006.stm   (406 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | British are browned off as HP Sauce goes Dutch
The manufacture of HP Sauce, a staple of British tables for more than 100 years, is to be moved to Holland, it was announced yesterday.
Plans to close the operation were unveiled less than a month after HP threw its support behind a campaign to save another British institution, the greasy spoon cafe.
Demand for HP sauce is increasing by more than three per cent a year and it is sold in 69 countries.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/10/nsauce10.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/10/ixuknews.html   (378 words)

  
 www.brownsauce.org - Everything HP Sauce
Since Heinz announced yesterday that they would be closing the Birmingham HP Sauce factory in March 2007, many of you have written in with your comments, condemning this decision and I, like you am very much saddened with this news.
The Aston HP Sauce factory, described as an icon to the gateway of Birmingham has been part of the community for over 100 years.
HP estimates that by 2010, the British cafe will have almost disappeared if the current trend continues unabated and if left unchallenged, the British cafe could soon follow the demise of other British institutions like the red phone box and the Routemaster bus.
www.brownsauce.org   (773 words)

  
 HP Sauce - Another Perspective - Technology News
HP is strong and clever, but it's never been able to shake off the rivals nipping at its extremities and occasionally lunging at its throat.
Figures in HP's form 10-K, the annual report every public company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, show that HP reported revenue for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2000, as $48.9 billion, yielding profit of $4 billion.
HP's merger with Compaq is history, like the marriage of Charles and Diana, and the only sensible thing for HP is to do what the Prince has done: live with it and move on.
www.tech-news.com /another/ap200503.html   (1085 words)

  
 Quintano Foods
HP sauces have a good standard of quality and the highest quality ingredients.
One of the world's favorite brown sauce is definitely the HP sauce.
HP brown is made of natural ingredients and it's unique piquant flavor provides a distinctive taste sensation when spicing up chips, sandwiches and all other types of snacks.
www.quintanofoods.com /page.asp?p=5831&brandID=33   (120 words)

  
 BBC - Nottingham A Sense of Place - Facts: Ten Nottinghamshire inventors
Garton's HP Sauce was developed by FG Garton, who ran a small grocery shop in Nottingham.
He called the sauce HP because he claimed to have heard that it was available in a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament.
HP is known as `Wilson's Gravy' after Harold Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister of the 1960s and 1970s, who was rumoured to cover his food with HP Sauce.
www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/sense_of_place/facts/inventors.shtml   (670 words)

  
 Hp Steak Sauce Directory - Hp Steak Sauce Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hp steak sauce, crosse and flwell worcestershire sauce, and yr original sauce are available at shaw's 617 262 4688.
BROWN sauce may be taken off jail menus after a prisoner used it to try to melt the bars on his cell window.
The boys restroom was totally trashed with sauce covering the toilets and urinals, he said, and the girls restroom was littered with paintball pellets and Dixie cups.
www.sauces-galore.info /hp-steak-sauce.html   (1123 words)

  
 Will HP be the New A1 for Me? - Slashfood
Obviously, this will be nothing new to a good number of people, but HP sauce is something brand new to me. Okay, actually, I have seen it many times before, and even bought a bottle of it from Surfas to take to some friends who live in an area where it's not as accessible.
I used that HP sauce with everything - dumped on, poured in, dipped into, and was "mmm"-ing through the whole meal.
It is often used as a breakfast sauce, especially as an accompniant to a fried breaksfast.
www.slashfood.com /2006/01/03/will-hp-be-the-new-a1-for-me   (930 words)

  
 HP Sauce
I was one of the Payroll clerks at HP between 1957 and 1960.
Every year HP gave a party at the Grand Hotel for the office personel.
There was a bit of excitement not long after I left in the way of a robbery at the wages office, the thief used the iron staircase that lead op there from the outside.
www.astonbrook-through-astonmanor.co.uk /id68.htm   (169 words)

  
 International [4] Flavored Burgers
For tastier, juicier burgers, mix some HP sauce to the ground meat, before shaping it into burgers.
Mix together ground beef, beaten egg, breadcrumbs or oatmeal or crushed corn flakes cereals and HP sauce; salt and pepper to taste.
Use to stuff tacos or tortillas; garnish with HP sauce, shredded lettuce, Cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese dices and tomato dices.
www.therecipebox.com /members/box/meat/mea0146.htm   (326 words)

  
 HP on the QT ~ Planet Boinng   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It's a red letter day in the world of condiments, as the mighty Heinz corporation of America has secured ownership of that most english of gentlemen's relish, HP Sauce.
Heinz, purveyors of fine Tomato Ketchup since 1875, have bought their natural tablefellow HP Sauce for £470m ($855m), rescuing the great British brand from the French group Danone (purveyors of annoying adverts with "mmm, Danone" tagged on the end of them).
Along with the famous brown sauce itself, Heinz's purchase of HP Foods also gives them Lea & Perrins Worcester Sauce, and, sneakily, Daddies Sauce - which it seems was not the fiercely competing brown sauce we always thought it was, and simply another HP product all along.
www.boinng.com /article.php?sid=527   (208 words)

  
 Mountain Biking in Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HP Sauce No meal in England is complete without HP Sauce, "The Classic Spicy Sauce."
But I actually grew to like grits, and the same is true of HP sauce.
I came to see a bottle of HP Sauce, complete with a drawing of Big Ben on the label, as an essential part of my meals in England.
www.opposable-thumbs.com /wales/hp.htm   (233 words)

  
 H.J. Heinz Co., agreed to buy the HP Foods and Lea & Perrins sauce divisions from France's Groupe Danone for $852 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
H.J. Heinz Co., agreed to buy the HP Foods and Lea & Perrins sauce divisions from France's Groupe Danone for $852 million, in a move that may position Heinz to possibly gain global control of the sauce market.
H.J. Heinz Co., agreed to buy the HP Foods and Lea and Perrins sauce divisions from France's Groupe Danone for $852 million, in a move that may position Heinz to possibly gain global control of the sauce market.
"H.J. Heinz Co., agreed to buy the HP Foods and Lea & Perrins sauce divisions from France's Groupe Danone for $852 million, in a move that may position Heinz to possibly gain global control of the sauce market." is an article from the Business category.
www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/461278-1.html   (547 words)

  
 Sun gets splash of HP sauce | The Register
There's no doubt that the redoubtable Carly Fiorina, CEO of HP, is waging a war of words against Sun and conveying the message, through layers of Cupertino apparatchiks, that HP/UX is the saviour of corporate America.
Talking of financial quarters, HP's results are out last week and don't forget that this means that we're in the quiet period, where no-one dare breathe a word about financials.
While the HP suits were primarily occupied in trashing Sun, they also took time out to give Compaq and IBM a bit of a kicking.
www.theregister.co.uk /2000/05/10/sun_gets_splash_of_hp   (614 words)

  
 The Daily Record - NEWS - DESIGNER HP IS A SELL-OUT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Andre Dang, spokesman for the store, said: "It is a very, very limited edition based on the year that HP Sauces first started.
The design is beautiful HP has produced 1899 of the bottles to mark the fact the sauce began in 1899.
Harrods' shelves were re-stocked with the sauce after the rush.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=15935057&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=designer-hp-is-a-sell-out--name_page.html   (307 words)

  
 HP (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HP Foods Limited, is a company of the Danone Group, and is best known for its HP Sauce in which the HP stands for 'Houses of Parliament'.
handphone, is referred to in most Asian countries as hp.
Also known as mobile phone in other parts of the world.
www.objectsspace.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Hp   (258 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Living - Food & Drink - Haricots and HP sauce. That'll do   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Haricot beans, baked and in a tomato sauce - though not always: in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men Lennie wishes that his beans had come in tomato ketchup instead of being plain fried - is probably the most famous canned food ever.
Though this was discontinued during the Second World War, the little cube of pork returned in the early 1950s, only to be taken out once again when the manufacturers discovered that vegetarians saw tinned baked beans as their savoury saviour.
Yet, at the end of the day, were I to be asked to name a last meal, as those unfortunates on the death rows of America are (most of them ask for hominy grits and Kentucky fried chicken, because most of them are Southerners), I would still find myself asking for beans on toast.
living.scotsman.com /food.cfm?id=354582006   (653 words)

  
 Heinz To Expand Its Global Condiments & Sauces Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The HP name (which stands for Houses of Parliament) has long been Britain's number-one savory table sauce.
The famous Worcestershire Sauce has literally traversed the globe since 1837 when it was served on the tables of ocean liners that traveled in and out of British waters.
Today, the Lea & Perrins and HP brand sauces maintain their acclaim and are regularly featured as essential ingredients in contemporary recipes created by celebrity chefs and restaurateurs.
www.foodingredientsonline.com /content/news/article.asp?docid={3E59DF11-38F6-45F4-92BB-51D1AF815687}&VNETCOOKIE=NO   (476 words)

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