FORTUNE FROM ONE RECIPE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 10

FORTUNE FROM ONE RECIPE.

The death was announced on i4th February of the head of a firm the name of which has been carried to every corner of the globe — Mr. Walter Lazenby, of Elizabeth Lazenby and Sons, the famous pickle and sauce manufacturers. Mr. Lazenby died at Sydenham in his seventy-first year. When as a youth, coming straight from school, Mr. Walter Lazenby began his work for the firm there was only a small factory for the ma-king of dinner condiments in Edward-street, W. — since renamed Wigmore-street. He was responsible for the growth of the concern (states a writer in the Daily Mail). From north of the Thames the factory for pickle and sauce making was moved to the south side. Under his superintendence two great factories were built, one in Bermondsey, covering many acres, •nd another in Trinity -street. Borough. ONE-HUNDRED YEAR OLD SECRET. The iortunes of tho Lazenbys stood first upon a recipe for fauce. A Mr. Peter Harvey found out how to make a «auce of delicious piquancy and appetising flavour. He presented his recipe to Mrs. Elizabeth Lazenby, a relative by marriage, and nne started, more than a hundred years ago, a small busintss in the- sauce. No one apart from the firm ftas ever been able to discover the exact way to , make Hurvey'a sauce. It remains a ! Lazenby secret to this day, and the original recipe of Mr. Peter Harvey is still in the keeping of the firm. Old advertisements from papers published a century since and more, detailing the charms of this famous Harvey's sauce, are preserved among the firm's records. But it was duo to the energy of Mr. Walter Lazenby that the sauce found its way into most of the larders of the world.