Basic BBQ Sauce

Smoky Okie's Note:

This sauce, while tasty in it's own right, serves as a good base for all tomato based sauces. Try adding a few other ingredients of your choosing to develope you own Utopian delight. Try adding things like L&P, more mustard, molasses, honey, garlic, cumin, chili powder, tomato paste, spices, etc. Whatever you add, you will most likely end up with a tasty sauce, and may even develop several different sauces to suit different moods. Have fun! Tim

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 64

• 44 ounces ketchup
• 1 cup yellow mustard
• 1 3/4 cups dark brown sugar
• 3 cups cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon salt

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients and simmer for 15 minutes.
2. Serve on the side with smoked meat.
3. Store refrigerated.

Reviews

[michelles3boys]

As stated this is an excellent base recipe for BBQ sauce. I customized it by adding some chili powder, liquid smoke, onion powder, Worcestershire sauce and a little dried basil. I used light brown sugar because that is all I had on hand. I also reduced the amount of vinegar by 1/2 because it sounded like it would be too tangy with the amount listed. It turned out really good. I will definitely be using this recipe (with my additions) from now on! Thank you so much for giving me the starting point!

[Shirl (J) 831]

WOW!!! great sauce I made this for PAC 07. This is a great all purpose, multi use sauce. great bold taste! I love it.

[Red Apple Guy]

Excellent sauce. I'll start here and make my own custom sauce as suggested, but it's terrific right now. It's easy to make, quick to make and plenty of tang.