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This year Tabasco Sauce from McIlhenny Company is celebrating its 150th birthday. Tabasco Sauce is still made on Avery Island Louisiana.
He grew peppers and developed the recipe from 1866-1868 and sold his first Tabasco sauce in 1869.
History of tabasco sauce. The Tabasco Sauce Backstory. The traditional story goes that Tabasco Sauce was created by Edmund McIlhenny. McIlhenny was from Maryland originally but he moved to New Orleans Louisiana to seek his fortune in about 1840.
He found his fortune by going into the banking business. By the time of the War Between The States he was a successful banker. A Brief History of Tabasco Sauce.
All of the worlds Tabasco sauce supply is made about two and a half hours from New Orleans on Avery Island which isnt so much an island but a salt dome surrounded by lush swampland. Here in the middle of Louisianas iconic Cajun Country the food-enlivening hot pepper sauce was first created 150 years. People started drizzling the sauce on oysters and it quickly spread to markets in San Francisco and New York.
By the 1880s Tabasco had even made its way to the UK. Weve got a letter from a British corporal in India saying how good the sauce was in his soup says Took. He prepared 658 bottles of sauce and they were sold to wholesale grocers all along the Gulf Coast region focusing on the New Orleans area.
The name of this sauce. Tabasco which means place where the soil is humid or place of the coral or oyster shell depending on which historians you trust. Twenty years later his production 41472 bottles indicates Tabasco originally called Petite Anse Sauce was taking off.
McIlhenny also brought aboard his sons Rough Rider John A. McIlhenny and artic explorer Edward A. McIlhenny forging a long family line that still runs the McIlhenny Co the parent company of Tabasco.
Where Maunsel Whites Concentrated Extract of Tobasco Sauce may have first been made available around 1850 and commercially in 1859. And where McIlhennys Tabasco Sauce was commercially available in 1869 this author believes that it is probable that both Maunsel White and Edmund McIlhenny developed their distinct tobasco and tabasco red pepper sauce recipes respectively from the original. It proved so popular with family and friends McIlhenny set about to commercially produce and market his red pepper sauce which he called Tabasco meaning place where the soil is humid or place of the coral or oyster shell.
Bell peppers rate zero Tabasco sauce rates between 9000 to 12000 and habanero peppers rate between 200000 and 300000 units. Charlie Chaplin uses a bottle of Tabasco sauce as a prop in The Immigrant. He grew peppers and developed the recipe from 1866-1868 and sold his first Tabasco sauce in 1869.
Unlike most brands who tout their recipe as being identical to the original Tabasco has definitely changed. Initially the pepper mash was aged for 30 days in jars then vinegar was added and it aged for another 30 days. Tabasco Habanero Sauce is introduced registering 7000-8000 Scoville heat units comparies to the 2500-5000 of traditional Tabasco Sauce.
2001 An archaeological team from the University of Alabama excavates portions of the original Tabasco factory site on Avery Island Louisiana. They unearth the earliest known bottles of Tabasco sauce. Tabasco sauce is about 3 to 5000 any sauce above 100000 is getting seriously hot and just a Habanero pepper itself is about 300000 scoville Units.
Then in 1989 Blair Lazar created the Death Sauce range of hot sauces in New Jersey US. In 1870 he patented Tabasco. The recipe varied over the years as Tabasco became a mainstay in the region but it wasnt until McIlhennys great.
This year Tabasco Sauce from McIlhenny Company is celebrating its 150th birthday. Since its history is as colorful as its flavor is hot here are 10 things you should know about one of your. The history of the McIlhenny Company should begin with a discussion of Avery Island since the Tabasco sauce recipe depended on the islands salt and peppers.
Located 140 miles west of New Orleans and 150 feet above sea level Avery Island–a 2300-acre tract located in the bayou country of Louisianamdashtually was the uppermost portion of a. In 1870 McIlhenny secured a patent for the sauce. In 1872 he opened an office in London to sell to the European markets.
Tabasco Sauce is still made on Avery Island Louisiana. At least half of the companys employees live on Avery Island with many whose descendants worked for the company. Edmund McIlhenny first produced Tabasco sauce in 1868 on Avery Island Louisiana.
The sauce is still produced in the same location as it was in the 1800s. Additionally the process remains pretty much the same of course the facilities have undergone modernization throughout the years. Archives Center National Museum of American History.
The famous hot sauce was actually born out of a major American conflict the Civil War. The McIlhenny family which still runs the McIlhenny Company that produces Tabasco fled their plantation on Avery Island Louisiana when the Union Army came to town. For Morning Edition NPRs Renee Montagne reports on the epic history of TABASCO Louisianas premier hot sauce.
Avery Island – along the Gulf Coast about 140 miles west of New Orleans – is the.