Subj : Sauces was: Life was: Bit
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Jan 25 2025 13:56:19

Hi Dave,


 RH> Yes, but I'm able to taste the nuances of the meat as it is, not the
 RH> sauce that smothers it.

 DD> Properly done the sauce enhances the flavours rather than masking
 DD> them. Most of the Carolina-style vinegar sauces I have tried have been
 DD> very
 DD> much vinegar forward and not to my liking. But, then I've never tried
 DD> that style sauce in Carolina.  Bv)=

Mixed in proper amounts to the pork, the eastern Carolina sauce isn't
strong on the vinegar. Made the mistake of adding some sauce to my bbq
at Smithfield's Chicken N Barbeque (a NC chain, mostly in the eastern
part of the state) before tasting it. Tasted it, turned out they'd mixed
in just the right amount and my addition put it over the top. I'd been
to a lot of pig pickin's and such like where it was "add sauce to taste"
that I just automatically grabbed the bottle. We've been back to
Smithfield's fairly often (most recently, just last month); I leave the
bottle on the table.

 DD> Best BBQ I ever had was at a little roadside stand next to a gas
 stop DD> near Magee MS. I was taking a load of canned milk to Miami, FL
 and DD> took the "short-cut between Jackson, MS and Mobile, AL on
 US-49. Since DD> there was parking space for my tractor-trailer I
 stopped to get a soda DD> and a DD> snack. Guy was cooking a whole hog
 on a spit and selling freshly cut DD> meat with qa cup of sauce on the
 side. Yuuuuum.

Those little roadside stands can come up with the best tasting food,
especially if it's something like bbq. Same with food trucks; we stopped
at a food truck rodeo a few years ago and hit up "Long Leaf Swine"
(state tree is long leaf pine), got a plate of good bbq. I think I read
that they're now in a food hall down in Raleigh now.


 DD> This is my favourite BBQ sauce for nearly all uses.

 DD> MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

 DD>       Title: Homemade Bbq Sauce
 DD>  Categories: Sauces, Herbs, Chilies
 DD>       Yield: 1 servings

 DD>     2/3 c  Ketchup
 DD>     1/2 c  Cider vinegar
 DD>     1/4 c  Brown sugar
 DD>       2 ts Pimentón (smoked Spanish
 DD>            - paprika)
 DD>       1 ts Ground cumin
 DD>       1 ts Kosher salt
 DD>       1 ts Fresh cracked black pepper

I'd have to give it a try but I'm not a fan of ketchup for a lot of
things. Too often it's used as a poor short cut for a longer cooked,
from scratch, tomato sauce and is too sweet for my taste.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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