BBQ Sauce

My husband was grilling for the first time this year and felt inspired to make homemade barbecue sauce. He kindly let me whip it together so I could claim it for this blog. Hurray! Another sauce toward this year's goal (3rd of 24)!

From the Joy of Cooking:

Barbecue Sauce

• 1 1/2 cups ketchup
• 1 cup cider vinegar or red wine vinegar
• 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 Tbls dry mustard
• 4 Tbls chili powder, or to taste
• 1 Tbls grated, peeled fresh ginger, or 1 tsp ground
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 Tbls vegetable oil
• 3 sliced lemon

Combine ingredients in a medium saucepan over medium heat and cook, stirring often, until the sauce comes to a simmer.  

Simmer for 5 minutes. Remove the lemon slices if desired.  

This sauce will keep, covered and refrigerated, for up to 2 weeks.

Makes about 2 cups.

Our verdict:  It was much thinner than what you expect from a commercially-bottled sauce, but it was tasty. I don't know if I'd rush to make this exact recipe again;  I would probably try out a few different BBQ sauce versions from my other cookbooks, to compare to this one. But certainly it was fine. Had a zest to it. Easy to make. All-in-all to be considered a successful receipe.