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Eastern North Carolina Barbecue Sauce

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Sauce, BBQ

Tags: boiled, easy, inexpensive, recipes for barbecue sauce, recipes using chile flake, recipes using honey, recipes using molasses, recipes using vinegar, recipes without servings, southern u.s.

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AEastern_North_Carolina_Barbecue_Sauce)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AEastern%20North%20Carolina%20Barbecue%20Sauce&oldid=4505189

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • ¾ gallons apple cider vinegar
  • ⅛ cup salt
  • ¼ cup ground black pepper
  • ¼ cup red pepper flakes
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 2 cups honey

Directions

  1. Start with apple cider vinegar in saucepan over medium heat.
  2. Add salt, ground black pepper, crushed red pepper, molasses, and honey.
  3. Let mixture heat up, but not quite boil.
  4. Mix well.
  5. Return sauce to the jug that the vinegar came in to cool.

Notes

This is the sauce used for authentic barbecue.