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Flaleftist

(3,473 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 09:27 PM Jan 2020

Do you have a favorite BBQ sauce recipe, perhaps something with brown sugar and honey?

I'm going to smoke some items tomorrow, spare ribs, a Boston butt, Italian sausage and some brisket. I have the ribs and brisket covered in a dry rub, chicken drums and thighs in brine, and the butt soaking in apple juice with some salt, brown sugar and cinnamon.

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Do you have a favorite BBQ sauce recipe, perhaps something with brown sugar and honey? (Original Post) Flaleftist Jan 2020 OP
KC Masterpiece + a can of Chipotles. Xipe Totec Jan 2020 #1
chipotles are magic instant BBQ sauce with just ketchup too! Kali Jan 2020 #6
Carolina Red is absolute favorite with my family, friends. Simple, easy, cheap!!! japple Jan 2020 #2
stick w/ grandma's ketchup, vinegar + br sugar. but i added onions(fried good too). then i added pansypoo53219 Jan 2020 #3
Sounds like mine but Blue_playwright Jan 2020 #5
that was my Mom's version too Kali Jan 2020 #7
Gates barbecue sauce. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2020 #4
Testify! flying rabbit Jan 2020 #11
my son loves to play around with BBQ sauces Kali Jan 2020 #8
One of my favorite things to massage into those flabby, tasteless chicken breasts Warpy Jan 2020 #9
My favorite BBQ sauce is Carolina style MissMillie Jan 2020 #10

japple

(9,821 posts)
2. Carolina Red is absolute favorite with my family, friends. Simple, easy, cheap!!!
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 09:37 PM
Jan 2020
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/carolina-red-barbecue-sauce-101804

ETA: For the brisket, I would mix this half and half with a good commercial BBQ sauce like Jack Daniels.

pansypoo53219

(20,972 posts)
3. stick w/ grandma's ketchup, vinegar + br sugar. but i added onions(fried good too). then i added
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 10:05 PM
Jan 2020

bell pepper, but if you like heat. add a hot one. i go on the sweet side. good for sloppy joes too.

Blue_playwright

(1,568 posts)
5. Sounds like mine but
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 10:47 PM
Jan 2020

Sounds like mine but I like to add a little bit of celery salt and just a touch of liquid smoke to finish it off.

Kali

(55,007 posts)
7. that was my Mom's version too
Thu Jan 9, 2020, 12:25 AM
Jan 2020

so good on oven roasted short ribs

to make it smokey you can add liquid smoke or chipotles.

Kali

(55,007 posts)
8. my son loves to play around with BBQ sauces
Thu Jan 9, 2020, 12:32 AM
Jan 2020

base of ketchup (already has sugar, tomato vinegar - or you can do those individually) then more brown sugar and/or molasses, vinegar, bit of mustard, onion, garlic, soy, hot pepper, smoke flavor from liquid smoke, smoked paprika, or chipotles. sometimes instead of or in addition to the sugar we throw in a leftover jar of jam or fruit preserves nobody wants to finish.

can get quite hot and spicy, tangy and vinegary, or sweet and rich depending on proportions of stuff.

when I was young there was a group of old Arizona Pioneer families that met once year for a steak fry and there was a mustard based sauce that was so good, I wish I could find that recipe again. I know it was published in the paper once in the early 70s. I might have found it more recently, but didn't have subscription access to look at the old images.

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
9. One of my favorite things to massage into those flabby, tasteless chicken breasts
Thu Jan 9, 2020, 02:41 AM
Jan 2020

is a combination of brown sugar and spicy brown mustard.. It really is a lovely combination.

MissMillie

(38,549 posts)
10. My favorite BBQ sauce is Carolina style
Thu Jan 9, 2020, 06:35 PM
Jan 2020

lots of tangy mustard, and vinegar.


I don't care for sweet BBQ sauce

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