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North Carolina Vinegar Sauce

Provided by Steven Raichlen

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups Cider Vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons Ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons Brown Sugar
  • 4 teaspoons Coarse Salt
  • 1 tablespoon Tabasco Sauce or other hot sauce
  • 1 to teaspoons Hot Red Pepper Flakes, or more to taste
  • 1 to teaspoons Black Pepper
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Cooking Instructions

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) jar and store in the refrigerator. It will keep for several months.

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DHa7763100
08/21/09 05:25 PM

WRONG-NOT AUTHENTIC

This is not an Eastern North Carolina vinegar sauce. There is no tomatoe or mustard or sugar in a North Carolina vinegar sauce. Vinegar, the juice the meat was cooked in, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper-THAT IS ALL. I don't understand why every "North Carolina Vinegar Sauce" recipe that I see has tomato it. Deb - Florida now, have lived in Durham, NC, my son was born there, my ex-husband and all his family are from there.
johnshubbard
02/18/09 09:58 AM

No tomato products in traditional NC BBQ sauce

This vinegar based sauce would probably represent a relatively 'modern' recipe from western North Carolina. Most Eastern NC bbq sauce will have NO tomato product at all. An 'original' vinegar based NC BBQ sauce dates back to when tomatos were thought to be poisonous.
aureliacorrinna
02/06/09 02:00 PM

Camp BBQ

My brother made BBQ sauce with no catsup. lots of black pepper and vinegar. Guests were many and kept returning to camp. We ate grilled kielbasa sandwiches while waiting for BBQ and grilled corn, etc.His recipe died with him in a car crash.
bcolcl
12/27/08 05:11 PM

bcolcl

I was recently in NC and tried some vinegar based sauce on some pork barbecue and really liked it. I have been looking for this recipe and am anxious to try it.
SpoonulaKing
10/06/07 04:43 PM

That's Not right

U dont Ketchup in a Nc Vinegar sa man..We doon't do that..Its Just Vinegar Crushed red pepper and Black peppar and salt thats it...

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