Difference between revisions of "Portsoy"

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Portsoy is a small sea port in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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-'''Portsoy''' is a small sea port in modern [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Scotland]] (but traditionally in the county of [[Banffshire]] which exists for ceremonial but not administrative purposes).
+'''Portsoy''' is a small sea port in [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Scotland]].
-On the north coastline, it was founded in 1818 by Sir Charles Huntly for the import of barrels of [[soy sauce]] from south [[China]] (Huntly was also implicated, through his membership of the East India Company and other trading interests in Britain's Indian possessions in the [[opium]] and tea trade with China). Soy sauce was imported in bulk to be turned into one of a range of piquant sauces in combination with other ingredients of local origin, notably smoked fish from the small local fishing villages, and spent [[yeast]] from local [[whisky]] distilleries. Huntly's Sauces had a great popularity in Victorian [[Britain]], which, however, waned as industrial-scale production of [[Worcestershire Sauce]] enabled companies such as Lea & Perrins to outstrip Huntly's. The last shipments of sauce were brought to Portsoy in 1921, and the manufactory closed for good in 1923.
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