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File:Cocks's Reading Sauce.jpg
== Buckwheat with Cocks Sauce ==
[[File:Cocks's Reading Sauce.jpg|thumb|upright|Cocks's Reading Sauce advertisement]]
This one sounds intriguing, doesn't it? Some older folks in England might remember Cocks's Reading Sauce. And no, it wasn't used to make reading about cocks more enjoyable. It was a brand of fish sauce produced in the Berkshire town of Reading by a fishmonger whose name was James Cocks (and his heirs after him). First marketed in 1802, it was made from fermented anchovies, walnut ketchup, mushroom ketchup, soy sauce, salt, garlic and chilli peppers<ref>{{Cyt
| nazwisko r = Corley
| imię r = T.A.B.
| rozdział = The Celebrated Reading Sauce: Charles Cocks & Co. Ltd. 1789–1962
| adres rozdziału = https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-787-1/dissemination/pdf/BAJ070_PDFs/BAJ070_A08_corley.pdf
| tytuł = Berkshire Archaeological Journal
| rok = 1979–80
| wolumin = 70
| strony = 101
}}</ref> (see [[Ketchup vs Mustard#Ketchup, “Something Akin to Kabul”|my older post]] for more about the intertwined histories of ketchup and fish sauce). It was soon followed by and competed for decades with similar sauces, also sold in small bottles with orange labels, like the now more famous Worcestershire sauce. But eventually, the production of Reading sauce in ended in 1962.<ref>{{Cyt
| nazwisko = Hughes
| imię = Glyn
| tytuł = Foods of England
| rozdział = Reading Sauce
| adres rozdziału = http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/readingsauce.htm
}}</ref> So it's unlikely that this is the sauce that was meant by the menu I saw in one Polish roadside inn. Besides, while Cocks's condiment was advertised to go well with "game, wild fowl, hashes, rump steaks and cold meat",<ref>{{Cyt
| nazwisko = Hylton
| imię = Stuart
| tytuł = A-Z of Reading: Places-People-History
| rozdział = Sauce
| adres rozdziału = https://books.google.pl/books?id=PWAuDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT95&pg=PT97
| wydawca = Amberley Publishing Limited
| rok = 2017
}}, illustration</ref> it was never known to be put on heaps of boiled buckwheat.
* [http://trzecitalerz.blogspot.com/2018/08/kasza-gryczana-z-kurkami-kuchnia.html Kasza z sosem kurkowym]
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/dhs9rd/cockss_original_reading_sauce_late_1800s/ Reading Cocks's Sauce] - autentyczny sos rybny, nazwany od nazwiska wynalazcy Jamesa Cocksa z Reading
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