Tabasco sauce is a hot sauce made with tabasco peppers, vinegar, and salt, aged for three years in white oak barrels. Invented in 1868, it is still mostly made by McIlhenny descendants. It is a popular condiment for many foods and there are now many other flavors available.
Tabasco sauce is a kind of hot sauce that is, as you would expect, made with tabasco peppers. The other key ingredients in this hot sauce are vinegar and salt. Before being bottled and sold, the sauce is aged for three years in white oak barrels.
Edmund McIlhenny invented the sauce in 1868. He gave it to family and friends using discarded cologne bottles as containers. In fact, when the sauce was first released commercially, it was packaged in cologne bottles purchased from a glass company in New Orleans. The company that makes and sells tabasco sauce is still mostly McIlhenny descendants.
Many people have chosen tabasco sauce as their favorite condiment. In some households, tabasco sauce is at the dinner table as often – if not more often – than standard condiments like ketchup and mustard. In fact, there are some bottles of tabasco sauce that are small and are meant to be carried in a purse or briefcase so that salsa devotees can use it to flavor food when traveling or when in a restaurant that does not offer the sauce.
There are several types of foods that can be seasoned with Tabasco sauce. Some foods that are commonly drizzled with salsa include stews, chili, burgers, burritos, fajitas, eggs, fried chicken, chicken wings, and fish sandwiches to name just a few. The sauce is often used as a condiment for common cuisines in the Southern and Southwestern United States. It is commonly associated with Cajun cooking and soul food. There are some recipes that specifically call for certain amounts of tabasco sauce in the ingredients, as well as recipes that call for the sauce as a topping for the full dish.
In addition to the original recipe, there are now many other types of Tabasco sauce distributed by the same company. There is one sauce that mixes tabasco peppers with habanero peppers and the other that mixes tabsaco peppers with garlic. There is a company-released jalapeño sauce that does not include tabasco peppers in the recipe. Other sauces the company distributes include a chipotle pepper-based sauce and another that is both sweet and tangy. Unlike the original recipe, these additional flavors do not age for three years in a white oak barrel before being bottled and sold.
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