Vinegar Sauce

Name: Vinegar Sauce
Yield: Makes About 4 cups
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 4 teaspoons hot red pepper flakes; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper; 2 cups cider vinegar; 5 teaspoons salt, or more to taste; ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons ketchup; ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar, or more to taste

Preparation info

Makes About
4 cups

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Barbecue Bible

By Steven Raichlen

Published 1998

About

Peppery and piquant, this vinegar sauce is the preferred condiment of eastern North Carolina. In the western part of the state, the sauce becomes more tomatoey, while in southern parts of the Carolinas, mustard sauce reigns supreme.

Ingredients

2 cups cider vinegar
½ cup plus 2 tablespoons ketchu

Americas
United States
Sauce

Method

Combine the vinegar, ketchup, brown sugar, salt, red pepper flakes, black pepper, and white pepper with 1⅓ cups of water in a nonreactive medium-size bowl and whisk until the sugar and salt dissolve. Taste for seasoning, adding more brown sugar and/or salt as necessary; the sauce should be piquant but