Barbecue Sauce

This is a classic American-style barbecue sauce. I use it at home in a couple of ways. Firstly, as a sauce on the side with any barbecued meat or poultry, and secondly, as a marinade. It is great with pork ribs: poach the ribs for one hour in salted water, marinate them in this sauce, then barbecue until caramelized and serve with some extra sauce on the side. Any of you who have been lucky enough to have barbecue from the deep south in the United States would have fond memories of this tas