The Great Winds of 1869 Traditional Cache
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It was in the mists of winter in 1869 when a weary traveller passed through the village of Thornton. He stayed in the local hostelry called the Crosby, and took his horse to be shod at the blacksmiths. Henry J. Heinz was his name and he had set up a business with his friend Clarence Noble making top quality horseradish and tomato sauce. His wagon which was placed in a barn behind the Crosby was loaded up with bottles of it to sell and get contracts throughout the country.
Unfortunately the weather closed in and the little village became isolated, but all was well his horse was newly shod and warm and dry in the barn with his wagon. The public house was warm and the locals were friendly. Unfortunately as the weeks went on food became low and the villagers resorted to their reserves which happened to be flageolet beans. The farmers in the area grew flageolet beans, and they could be baked and kept in jars which preserved them.
Now even though the landlady bragged she could come up with 56 different recipes with the flageolet bean, Henry brought in his new tomato sauce and heated these slightly hard beans in a pan which softened them and brought out the taste.
This new recipe soon got around the village with the men talking about it in the Crosby and the women gossiping in church on Sunday. The news spread to neighbouring villages and it wasn’t long before Henry’s supply of his now very famous sauce was running low.
The snow started melting, and Henry was soon on his way, but before he left he promised to send regular supplies of his sauce to the Crosby, and for many months after people in the area would travel to the Crosby in bean town to stock up on Henrys sauce.
As time went on Henry stopped sending his sauce as he had developed the recipe and it could be bought in tins all over the country, and the nick named bean town changed to Thornton le Beans, now over the mists of time very few people know off the association between Henry and the 57th recipe and the little village of Thornton.
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