Swingin' Snathi BBQ Sauce!

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By Snarkotamus on July 2, 2009 7:41:18 PM from

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1 36 oz bottle of Ketchup (store brand will do)

3/4 C white vinegar*

1/4 C cider vinegar*

1/2 C water*

1/4 C molasses

1/4 C brown sugar

1 Tablespoon each of:

Onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper, chili powder, paprika (Hungarian is best), freeze-dried decaf coffee.

1 Teaspoon dried mustard, or a decent squirt of regular mustard.

1/8 to 1/4 Teaspoon of Mace (NOT the self-defence variety. Use the kind that comes from the spice section of the supermarket. Jeeez....).

*If you want a Carribean feel, add 1 Tablespoon of Thyme and 1 Teaspoon each of allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground red pepper. Substitute orange juice for the vinegar and water.

Whisk the mixture real good, then simmer over low heat for a couple of hours. Stir FREQUENTLY!

Mad props for encouraging folks to try mace, and solid scoff for the funky asterisk use.

Store-brand ketchup might "do," but not nearly as well as your favorite brand name, especially if it has an organic version (better tomato flavor, less liklihood of corn syrup, which could oversweeten the sauce).

Also good to be a bit picky about 'chili powder.' Look for one that is only made from dried chiles--some bottles are labeled 'chili powder' but also include most of the non-chile powders in your 1 Tablespoon list, so you can't control the ratios.

For a sauce, I'd recommend a wet product over a mustard powder, both to help emulsification and for the added notes like white wine. (I'd use a brown mustard with some whole seeds, like Plochmann's.)

Half the asterisk-scoff is really moot on account of respect for the 'jerked BBQ' notion. If you still have a posh budget, a slug of Cointreau wouldn't hurt at all in there.

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Sounds good Snark. You should make some bottles and sell it on the Internet.

And Karma for the alternate recipie. Carribiean sauce FTW!

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