Another NC Vinegar Sauce

Here's the recipe from Steven Raichlen's "How to Grill" cookbook.

2 cups cider vinegar
3 tablespoons ketchup
2 tablespoons brown sugar
4 teaspoons coarse salt
1 tablespoon Tabasco or other hot sauce
1-2 teaspoons hot red pepper flakes, or more to taste
1-2 teaspoons black pepper

Combine all the ingredients in a nonreactive mixing bowl and whisk until the salt and brown sugar dissolve. Taste for seasoning, adding hot pepper flakes as necessary. Transfer the sauce to a clean (or even sterile) jars and store in the refrigerator. It will keep for several months.

On a recent trip to NC I learned that they use a vinegar that has a different acidity than what we are used to buying in the grocery store. In trying to duplicate a NC srtyle sauce I would think that would make a big difference.

I tried a commercially prepared venegar based bbq sause while in Hillsborough, NC over the holidays and thought it was very good. Not quite as hot and spicey as the other one mentioned on the forum - it was also good, but more than I could handle. Here's the site - www.carolinatreet.com. It's in all the stores in that area, but not available here in N. Fl.

Paul

Lexington BBQ Sauce
Just a little different than others...
a splash of h2o & spice

1 cup vinegar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup ketchup
1 T worchestershire sauce
1 T brown sugar
1/2 t cayenne pepper
1/2 t fresh ground black pepper
1/2 t salt