Paul McNoob wrote:

On Jun 9, 10:18*am, (Phred) wrote:

Paul the Q noob wrote:

I am currently searchin' the 'net for some homemade bbq sauce recipes,
and found some that use catsup. I don't wanna use anything like catsup
because I want to do this all from scratch. (especially to cut out all
that high fructose corn syrup crap for my 1 year old)

In place of catsup, do I use tomato paste or dilute the tomato paste
with something like water?

In the meantime, if anyone has any delicious yet simple bbq sauce
recipes I'd appreciate it. I'll follow up with any I find for
thoughts.

Here's one from an Oz site, listed here without prejudice. :-)
(And without any useful comment from me for that matter!)

http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/Barbeque-Sauce-L518.html

The instant coffee is certainly from left field! *YMMV.
Also, I perhaps you could use less sugar if you're so inclined?

Thanks.

Maybe my question should be: how do you go about making BBQ sauce from
scratch?

I'd like to make a big ol' batch, so I can keep it in the back of the
fridge for weeks.

I'm not sure it's practical to keep it quite that long.

If your recipe includes catsup, it's not too difficult to
find a HFCS-free catsup. Otherwise, a mixture of tomato paste,
water, and either blueberry or apricot jam works. (Making
sure the latter are also HFCS-free too.) You can try leaving
out the tomato ingredient entirely but my experience is it
wants some tomato in it, even if the effect you're going for
is a non-tomato-y sauce.

I always put brewed coffee, a little liquid smoke, vinegar, and
cayenne in. Some may prefer to leave out any of these.


Steve