What the #$%& is this recipe for?

Cafe Society
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Help me solve a mystery, CafeDopers. I ran into a Post-It with a recipe in my own handwriting. I remember a long time ago a) looking up the recipe online (AllRecipes? probably?) and b) thinking “I *really *should label this” and then c) thinking “this is such a superawesome recipe! I’ll NEVER forget what it’s for! Wheeeee!”

:smack:

This whole episode would be well-drawn via The Oatmeal.
Anyway: what the blazes is this? I think the results are simmered into a sauce… but I don’t know for sure? All I wrote down are the ingredients … which I guess means it’s not much of a “recipe.” smackysmackysmack

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup cider vinegar
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup chili sauce
  • 1/4 cup W-shire sauce
  • 1 Tbs lemon juice
  • 2 Tbs chopped onion
  • 1/2 tsp dry mustard powder
  • 1 clove minced garlic
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Looks like barbecue sauce to me. :slight_smile: Put all the ingredients in a saucepot and simmer till it looks and smells good. Taste to confirm goodness.

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Looks like a barbecue sauce to me.

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Looks like barbecue sauce.

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Yep. Looks like a Kansas City-style BBQ sauce.

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QFT. Really can’t be anything else.

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Peanut butter cookie recipe.

Nah, it’s a BBQ sauce. Missing beer though.

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I totally misread the OP and thought, what a god-awful oatmeal recipe. It’d make a good bbq sauce though.

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Now that we’ve resolved that. . . skip the mustard, use 1/2 cup tomato paste instead of the ketchup, and add dash of dried horseradish. Also 1/4 tsp turmeric will do amazing things, and two drops of dark sesame oil will make it richer.

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I’ve never made BBQ sauce before so I didn’t recognize it, but I pegged it as a marinade as soon as I looked at it. Mix it up, toss some chicken in it overnight and throw it on the grill.

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Wouldn’t grilling chicken with that sugary sauce on it burn before it was done? I say, grill till almost done, baste, and grill some more.

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It’s too sugary for a marinade. It’ll burn for sure. Follow above directions: grill, baste, finish, add as needed at table.

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Just to be contrary, or in case you’re thinking, “BBQ sauce? Hell, no, I wouldn’t write that down!” I’ll suggest an alternate: marinade (hang on a sec) for beef jerky. Since beef jerky isn’t grilled, the sugar won’t burn, but heck, that’d taste good! :smiley:

But yeah, it’s probably meant as BBQ sauce.

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Great, I read this thread and now I want some barbecued oatmeal.

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My first thought was meatloaf sauce. My second thought was barbecue sauce.

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It looks like a recipe for my Grandma’s BBQ Beef (or pork) sandwiches. Which was sort of BBQ for us without actually BBQ-ing. We’d just shred leftover Beef or Pork Roast and simmer it in a similar sauce and serve on Buns with pickles.

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Now I want me some barbecue. Don’t have chili sauce, though…but that does sound tasty. Barbecue ribs, and some grilled corn, and cucumber salad. That’s what I want tonight.

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That’s what it seems to me.

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Can’t be barbecue sauce. It doesn’t have any coffee in it.

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Really, about the only thing this recipe is missing is maybe a hint of cloves for Old Fashioned Midwest BBQ slow cooked beef sandwiches.