Yorkshire Relish - Brits question

Factual Questions
1

Cat Jones has gone back to the UK this week and asked if I wanted anything brought back, but when I mentioned YR Sauce she looked a little lost.

In Ireland I always bought YR sauce (it’s a brown sauce, like HP Brown sauce) and presumed that it was known all over the UK seeing as the YR stands for Yorkshire Relish.

I even found a link to an ad from 1876 printed in a British paper, yet none of my UK friends have ever heard of the stuff.

Is there anyone out there besides me that knows it?
Google just told me what “daddys sauce” means !

2

I’m from Yorkshire, and I’ve never heard of it. The only branded brown sauces i can name are HP and Daddy’s

3

Never heard of it. I found this recipe for it, which looks like rather like the contents of Worcestershire sauce minus anchovies & tamarind.

4

Another Yorkshireman born and bred and i’ve never heard of YR either. It seems to have fallen out of favour somewhere along the line.

5

I’ve never met a British person who knows this sauce.

http://www.chivers.ie/brands/YRSauce.asp

It seems it’s a Irish only thing. Way better than HP or any other brown sauce IMO.

It’s the sauce of the gods.

6

Crap, didn’t see the link in the OP. :smack:

7

I’m Irish and I know Yorkshire Relish!

I don’t like it, but I do know what it was. YR was the alternative to buying Houses of Parliament sauce.

8

Yorkshire lass checking in to say - never heard of it.

9

I’m not from Yorkshire (although I did wear a flat cap once), but I’ve never heard of it, and I am a person that shops for sauces.

10

So this stuff was made in Leeds by Goodalls (The Irish Chivers company only bought it in the past 10 years or so) and shipped to Ireland ?

And another thing, in that 1876 ad it says “Grocers, oilmen and chemists…”, the chemists I can understand but what the hell was an oilman ?

11

from dictionary.com

One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.

I guess YR sauce must count as a pickle

12

It wasn’t only shipped to Ireland. I found this recently while looking for the earliest product placement I could find.

Dickens, Charles.- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Unabridged Edition of Half-a-Million Copies, with Twenty Illustrations. Leeds, England. Goodall, Backhouse & Co. 1886. Pages 208 pp.8vo. Illustrated green paper wraps. Double column format. Text interspersed with ads. First Edition in this format. Illustrated by A. Billinghame.Goodall’s Household Library. A wonderful proprietary edition of "Pickwick’ as a vehicle of advertising by Goodall, Backhouse & Co. for their Yorkshire Relish, Baking and Custard Powders, Egg Powder, etc. Other charming ads abound. The front cover is illustrated with the scene of Mr. Pickwick in the wheelbarrow. The rear cover is illustrated with a view of a meeting of the Pickwick Club discussing the merits of Goodall’s Household Specialties, Mr. Pickwick standing on the chair upraising a bottle of Yorkshire Relish while the other members scrutinize boxes and bottles of Goodall products. Every open square centimeter of the text and covers is used for advertising. Chips from spine and covers near hinges. Fading of spine and edges of covers. Else, a Good to Very Good copy of a very fragile, but rare item.

13

Never heard of it.

14

I always thught that YR was just a HP knock-off. learn something new every day.

15

Now I definately remember Yorkshire Relish, in fact I’m thinking it was originally bought by Hammonds, famous for their tomato sauce and the world famous brass bands.

I can’t remember the taste now, it was not really like HP which is sharper and more peppery.

I do think I recall that when Hammonds took it over it became a lot more tart and vinegary.

I have not seen it in some time.

16

But though she’s a factory lass
And wears no fancy clothes
Yet I’ve a sort of Yorkshire relish
For my little Yorkshire Rose!

17

Another Yorkshireman - never heard of it.

18

I too hail from Yorkshire and only heard of it on NADS a few months ago.

I tend to favour CHOP sauce but until now have never read the label (couldn’t care less where it is from or what they put in it) and see on the label it is by Hammonds Of Yorkshire.

Oddly enough it is actually made by McCormick (UK) Ltd. Buckinghamshire. In 1837. Plastic bottles have been around a lot longer than I thought.

19

So I guess it’s like French Fries. Or English Muffins. (Or French Letters and the English desease :smiley: .)

20

As long as we get to keep the puddings we are prepared to let things like relish go to Ireland :slight_smile:

(you can take Pontefract Cakes as well if you like, whoever saw fit to call those abominations cakes needs putting down)