Fifty million bottles of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce are now sold every year in 130 countries. The original recipe did not come from Worcestershire, however, and in the 1 Mr Lea and Mr Perrins did not even like it. It was Lord Marcus Sandys who, on his retirement as Governor of Bengal in India, 2 the recipe to Worcester in 1835. He asked the local chemist's shop, Lea and Perrins, to make some for him. This they did, also making some for themselves. But, deciding it tasted 3, they put it in the cellar and forgot about it. Two years later, when clearing out the cellar they found the bottles, tasted the sauce and thought it was wonderful. The sauce is now made to the 4secret recipe and the bottles you buy in the shops are about three years old. Even when one hundred years old, the sauce is 5 to be not only safe, but also still very good.