[1][2] Its basic ingredients are fish, tomatoes and onions seasoned with black rum and hot sauce.

One recipe uses one cup of chopped onion, celery, and carrot as well as diced pork hocks and a dash of Worcestershire sauce.

[4] Another uses white fish fillets (either cod, grouper, tilefish, or snapper), onions, carrots, celery, minced garlic, unsalted butter, bay leaf, thyme, allspice, Worcestershire sauce, black rum and sherry pepper sauce.

[3][7] Locally manufactured Outerbridge's Original Sherry Peppers Sauce is one of Bermuda's few exports.

Called "peppers wine", it was used by sailors to make spoiled food more palatable.