If you are no longer living with your parents, you really should have a house sauce made without preservatives, additives, stabilizers, and emulsifiers, so that when your guests ask “what brand of sauce is that?” you can plunk a hand labeled bottle on the table. When they beg you for the recipe, you can then tell them “It’s a family secret” and mumble the old saw that ends in “and then I’d have to kill you.”
Do this1) In a small bowl, mix the chili powder, black pepper, and salt. In a large bowl, mix the ketchup, mustard, vinegar, Worcestershire, lemon juice, steak sauce, molasses, honey, hot sauce, and brown sugar. Mix them, but you don’t have to mix thoroughly.
In half of North Carolina barbecue sauce is practically clear with cayenne pepper flakes that flurry in it like a snow globe. In other parts of the state it is practically pink. In much of South Carolina it is yellow. In many dingy brown joints of Texas it is close to brown with big chunks of green peppers and other flotsam in it. And in a corner of North Alabama it is white with black pepper flecks. In Memphis the “sauce” comes from a shaker and is no more liquid than the paprika that is its backbone.
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Summer is a busy time, and summer weekends are even busier. Add in a holiday and there are not enough hours in the day to get everyone done, even with a Monday off.
Click here for recipes for other authentic regional barbecue sauce recipes including: South Carolina Mustard Sauce, East Carolina Mop-Sauce, Lexington NC Dip (a.k.a. Western Carolina or Piedmont Dip), Texas Mop-Sauce, Tennessee Whiskey Sauce, Louisiana Hot Sauce, Alabama White Sauce, Memphis Dry Rub, and more.