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06-01-2004, 09:21 PM | #1 |
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Let Talk Home Made Sauce
BigMista and others have brought up sauce making recently. I thought it should have its own thread.
I've been a sauce mod guy. Buy some cheap marginal sauce, put some stuff in to fine tune it to my tastes. I've tried a few scratch recipes and hated all of them. What do you use for a base for a tomato sauce? Tomato sauce, paste, puree? Mine always seems too cooked by the time its not too thin. Sauce makers help us wannabes out a little.
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06-01-2004, 11:32 PM | #2 |
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Bigmista had some great sauce he made this weekend. Share that recipe.
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06-02-2004, 12:08 AM | #3 |
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I usually fix up cheap sauces myself but I got a bug up my butt about making some from scratch so I got busy in the kitchen. The trick to making a tomato based sauce is getting rid of the tomato taste. Sounds crazy but it's true. It's impossible for me to give quantities because I never measure anything but here is a list of ingredients I used.
Ketchup Worchestershire Sauce Hot Sauce(Trappey's or Louisiana works fine) Salt Black Pepper Cayenne or other red pepper Garlic Powder Onion Powder Lemon Juice Cinnamon Allspice Brown Sugar Some type of syrup (Maple is readily available and works great.) Put al of the ingredients in a pot. Heat till it bubbles. Turn the fire down and simmer about 30 minutes. Slather it on some meat and eat! Mista
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06-02-2004, 07:47 AM | #4 |
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KC ya gotta use ketchup.
I make my own and have had some pretty good batches. My next step is taking the ketchup out and using the raw ketchup ingredients. Someone told me that if you market a sauce you need to go down to all ingredients, otherwise the cost of the ketchup will kill ya. So, that is my next venture. I hope to get it all down and perfect before the fall bash. I currently make a sweet and smokey, have not tried to heat it up yet. |
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06-02-2004, 07:55 AM | #5 | |
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06-02-2004, 08:50 AM | #6 |
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Check out what a gallon can of tomato sauce is at Sam's or Costco. Something like a couple bucks I think. Then build from that. Keep a log if you want systematically to improve.
Personally, I grow my own tomatos and tomatillos and peppers. Just a few hundred or so this season. I've still got gallons of frozen sauce, salsa, etc. from last season. Way better than anything storebought; especially fresh in season. Not necessarily cheaper than the cheapest though all things considered. But I do get to play in the dirt and eat good. PS: My "secret" ingredients are Bandera smoke-dried pepper powder made from poblanos and habaneros.
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06-02-2004, 10:47 AM | #7 |
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I ALWAYS begin with ketchup. But in a pinch I will use tomato sauce and doctor it up from there. When you do your homemade sauce the way you like it then remember this. DO NOT CHANGE KETCHUP BRANDS...and DO NOT CHANGE TOMATO SAUCE BRANDS! Reason is if you do you will be essentially changing your receipe.
My wife and I have been working on two versions of our sauce for the better part of a year now. Pretty happy with it but still in the "prototype" stage. Right now we are thinking about making our ketchup from scratch and building our sauce from there. I know....pretty crazy.
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06-02-2004, 10:58 AM | #8 |
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I can't help out here at all, my "secret" sauce is my last hidden bottle of Head Country Hot! :D www.headcountry.com
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06-02-2004, 11:03 AM | #9 | |
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06-02-2004, 11:08 AM | #10 | |
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06-02-2004, 11:35 AM | #11 |
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I'm not a huge sauce fan, but have worked on a few for those that do. I usually start with a recipe that looks pretty good and then start adapting it to the flavor I want. If you have Smoke and Spice there are a couple of recipes in there that are a pretty good starting point.
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06-02-2004, 12:07 PM | #12 |
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Interesting. Most everybody chiming in is talking about a KC/OK/TX style sauce, basically ketchup based with no vinegar or mustard.
Anybody from the Carolinas wanna chime in - maybe some of you mustard sauce folks, or vinegar folks or ketchup/vinegar folks? What about some Memphisites? Ketchup/mustard/brown sugar based sauces rule there I hear. The basic sauce I grew up (and out) on is worsey/brown sugar/cider vinegar based. Yep, it's thin, but it brings out the flavor in mutton, chicken and pork. mmMMMmmmm.
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06-02-2004, 12:12 PM | #13 |
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Um Racer,
Tomato based sauces are from Illinois
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06-02-2004, 12:16 PM | #14 | |
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06-02-2004, 12:22 PM | #15 |
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Yeah. When I think of BBQ, I always think of Illinois.
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