Sauce for BBQ Beef
From: jp
Date: Fri Jun 8, 2001 6:11pm
The following sauce is a simple and pretty good general-purpose barbeque sauce. It's from Texas Home Cooking, by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison, Harvard Common Press, 1993. I think it's also in their Smoke and Spice cookbook.
Glaze and Barbeque Sauce (from the Prime-Plus Short Ribs recipe, p.31)
1-1/2 cups ketchup
1 cup beer
3/4 cup cider vinegar
3 tablespoons minced cilantro (dried is tolerable; fake the amount)
3 tablespoons dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce
2 garlic cloves, minced (garlic powder is tolerable)
2 teaspoons cumin seeds, toasted and ground (store-bought cumin powder is tolerable)
1-1/2 teaspoons anise seeds, toasted and ground (we usually omit this)
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon tabasco or other hot pepper sauce
Mix the glaze ingredients in a saucepan, and bring them to a simmer, stirring frequently. Cook the mixture for 30 minutes. To use as a sauce, simmer another 15-20 minutes, until it's reduced by one-third.
We sometimes add a smidge of liquid smoke if we're not smoking the beef. If you use this as a glaze, apply it only during the last hour or it can burn.
--jp, a fan of the Texas barbeque tradition