4th July BBQ for 100 People (Pron) Very long, go get a beverage...

SmokinAussie said:

Thanks for the compliments.

Yes, what Buccs says is 100% accurate. With the Key Lime Pie, we road tested it the week before. (I also road tested a Pork Shoulder). We went to USA foods and bought a Graham Cracker Pie Base and then followed the recipe. First of all the pie base was so sweet as to be sickly and the lime filling was very much the same. With a lime filling, we'd expect to have it taste very tart. So, we made out own pie base from Granita Biscuits, which as the closest local thing to the Graham Crackers and added no sugar at all. Then we HALVED the Sweetened Condensed Milk content, meaning a lot more lime juice and eggs were required. So we actually used real fresh limes from my Mums lime tree to add to the stuff that Bluetang sent me. That meant more tartness and richness without the sugar hit.

As for the pulled pork, yes I did glaze with a very small amount of Myron Myxons Pork Shoulder Glaze recipe, but not too much. I just brushed it on once and that was enough. So, the pork was served "savory" not sweet. I supplied a sweet and tangy sauce on the table if anyone wanted to pump in the sweetness... made from Peach Preserves and a bucket load of light corn syrup.. Nobody really wanted it.:mmph: It sure tasted good though.

Cheers!

Bill

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SmokinAussie said:

Yeah!

That would be awesome. It means I could get drunk, and you'd stop me from Burning stuff.....:twisted::twisted:

Cheers!

Bill

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buccaneer said:

I cooked 4 different beans recipes from USA, and all 4 got the eaters freaking out and saying it was a dessert.

I learned, and my bean recipes this last year have contained NO sugar(or syrup etc) or just a smidge if acidic and have been raved about.
It also makes me think the opposite may be a problem, if I cooked my chili or beans recipes over there I may be getting dirty looks?:sad:

We note not only in BBQ but in cooking in general, American recipes use buckets of sugar compared to our tastes, and since sugar is a flavour masker that becomes a real issue with the expectations of the eaters.
Different cultures is all.

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dadsr4 said:

It's not just you. Many of the recipes I have from my fathers mother are less sweet. Depression era cooking. When I go through the recipes I've printed out for my own use, I find notes that I used 1/2 to 1/3 the listed amount of sugar.

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