Harvey’s Sauce

Harvey’s Sauce was a mixture of vinegar, anchovies, cayenne pepper, soy sauce, walnut pickle, garlic, shallots and cochineal, highly popular in the 19th century, although now long gone. Capt Charles Combers (born 1752) was a keen member of the Quorn and stopped at The George at Bedford, on his way to Leicestershire. He orders his usual steak from Harvey,