vinegar-based bbq sauce recipe?

certified_prime · July 2011

What's your favorite north caroline style vinegar-based sauce recipe? I absolutely loved the style when I spent 2 years travelling to Charlotte for work a couple years ago, and want to whip some up at home.

I'll be smoking a couple pork butts this weekend, and want a good NC sauce for table use.

I see most recipes online are just cider vinegar, salt, and red pepper flakes. Is that all it really? The ones I had in NC seemed a bit more complex than that....

Edemitch · July 2011

Search the site for Elder Ward's Pulled Pork. He has a pretty good spicy vinegar recipe in it.

groceryman · July 2011

Lexington Style Pork Sauce:
3/4 cp cider vinegar
3/4 cp ketchup
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
salt andd pepper to taste
2 1/2 tsp sugar
1 cp water

Simmer for ten minutes or so to blend flavors. Mix in with your meat as you're chopping. Also good as an ingredient in the 'Red Slaw"

egganator · July 2011

Vinegar Sauce 5 STAR and 3 Championships

2 cups cider vinegar

½ cup water

1 tbs red chili flakes

2 tbs sugar

1 ½ tsp Worcestershire

1 ½ tsp kosher salt

1 ½ tsp ground black pepper

1 cup ketchup

Whisk the vinegar, water, chili flakes, sugar, Worcestershire, salt, pepper, and ketchup in a medium saucepan over low heat. Simmer for 30 minutes.

AZRP · July 2011

This is my favorite for pulled pork. -RP

2 cups apple cider vinegar
3 oz yellow mustard
½ stick butter
2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp cayenne pepper
¼ tsp sugar
1 tbs lemon juice
16 oz ketchup

Cook at a simmer for 10 minutes stirring frequently.

NibbleMeThis · July 2011

This is the one my grandmother gave me. It is supposedly the one used by the local volunteer fire department in Clarkton, NC (Lisbon) which was the very first real bbq I ever had back when I was 7.

1/8 gallon vinegar
1/2 ounces lemon juice
1/8 ounce red pepper
1/4 sticks margarine
1/8 gallon catsup
1/2 ounces Hot sauce
1/8 ounce black pepper
Salt to taste
1/8 cup honey

Instructions
Combine and heat over medium heat until flavors blend.
Could be easily reduced to 1/4 recipe which would still make 1/2 gallon; however, should keep for ages in the refrigerator.
The Fire Department used either a whole pig or whole fresh hams. (recipe as given to me on a 3x5 notecard from my grandmother. I have already reduced it here)

I use this as a finishing sauce for my pulled pork, after hickory smoking a pork butt at 250f degrees for about 1 1/2 hours per pound. I like to serve on plain hamburger buns, the pork tossed lightly in sauce, and slaw on top.

Chief Chef · July 2011

The book Smoke and Spice has a couple of very tasty vinegar based bbq sauces. We have become very fond of the mustard/vinegar type - not sure which part of the Carolinas that is from - being from up north and all.

Howdy, Stranger!

Forums

vinegar-based bbq sauce recipe?

Comments