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- The McIlhenny Company denies all claims that Edmund McIlhenny obtained his pepper seed or pepper sauce recipe from Maunsel White. Maunsel White also created another sauce, called "Maunsel White's 1812 Sauce" in honor of the Battle of New Orleans. This sauce contains a mixture of wines, peppers, and spices.
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According to one legend, McIlhenny was given tabasco peppers and a recipe for tabasco sauce by a friend, plantation owner Maunsel White, who died in 1863 – though company legend says McIlhenny himself invented the sauce between 1866 and 1868.
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Oct 10, 2019 · The McIlhenny Company denies all claims that Edmund McIlhenny obtained his pepper seed or pepper sauce recipe from Maunsel White. Maunsel White also created another sauce, called "Maunsel White's 1812 Sauce" in honor of the Battle of New Orleans.
Does history record that Edmund McIlhenny obtained his peppers or pepper sauce recipe from Maunsel White? “No. In fact, there is no contemporary historical evidence that Edmund McIlhenny knew Maunsel White, much less that he received his peppers or pepper sauce recipe from Maunsel White.
“According to family tradition, founder Edmund McIlhenny obtained some hot pepper seeds from a traveler who had recently arrived in Louisiana from Central America. McIlhenny planted them on Avery Island, and then experimented with pepper sauces until he hit upon one he liked.”
(McIlhenny Company, maker of world-famous Tabasco brand pepper sauce, denies persistent claims that its founder, E. McIlhenny, obtained his peppers and pepper sauce recipe from Maunsel White.) White's other sauce, known as "Maunsel White's 1812 Sauce," contains a mixture of wines, peppers, and spices.
A food lover and avid gardener, Edmund McIlhenny was given seeds of Capsicum frutescens peppers that had come from Mexico or Central America. On Avery Island in South Louisiana, he sowed the seeds, nurtured the plants and delighted in the spicy flavor of the peppers they bore.
Through the decades, it has proclaimed its founder, Edmund McIlhenny, the originator of the 135-year-old product. As I discussed last week, White was growing “tobasco” peppers by 1849 and began marketing “Col. Maunsel White’s Concentrated Extract of Tobasco Sauce” in 1859.
