It can be eaten cold, but is much better sliced and fried (in bacon grease, ideally) and served as a breakfast item.Livermush is similar to the scrapple of Pennsylvania (and no doubt evolved from the recipes of the same German settlers) but has relatively less cornmeal than that, I believe. (another shall! vinegar, water, butter, salt, and pepper (red & black) -- wonderfully simple and and simply wonderful. Some want cornbread. Please cook the sauce. Thx u so much!Posted Wed, Aug 9 2017 9:38PM, dave this is really good sauce. "Posted Mon, Jul 25 2016 5:25PM, Bbqlover Some of your recipes are good , but a true Carolina BBQ lover doesn't put ketchup mustard or molasse in their sauce.You just don't. City Barbeque: Disappointing - better options around Ballantyne - See 70 traveler reviews, 34 candid photos, and great deals for Charlotte, NC, at Tripadvisor. Again, it's a matter of taste, but just because you disagree doesn't mean you should fancy yourself the official arbiter of what deserves to be called a "North Carolina sauce. Still miss that tastePosted Mon, Jul 3 2017 4:40PM, Jay Lee Relieved you expanded your ingredient list beyond the 4 and sounded on the money, but you lost me at "ketchup." Calorie breakdown: Garner Foods. Even though it is not authentic or purist as a classic ENC sauce, it's close enough for me! Small Party Salad. The crockpot method was just not good enough last time! There's a fine line between passion and fanaticism, and some folks tiptoe that line pretty closely when it comes to 'cue. !Posted Sun, Sep 27 2015 4:01PM, p3orion Yeah, well I can sympathize with him. true eastern nc sauce is just a douche recipe but it is good in its own rights. Finally comes the pulled pork, the most perfect pairing for this sauce. I was raised in Winston-Salem and Texas Pete is a complete MUST. $8.05 Pulled Pork My good friend Adam and I made this the other night and he said "Well, I'll suffer that yankee for this sauce. It's ok on chicken and my wife likes it but I don't consider it BBQ sauce or "Alabama white sauce'.Tabasco only adding heat is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. "NO KETCHUP!" Only hickory wood. I've even seen folks get red in the face debating exactly how the meat should be cut, whether to use cider or distilled vinegar and how much water, whether to use red or black pepper, etc.. Then comes the sides and how to prepare them, such as plain white bread on the side or a bun if bread is used as all. I have found several where you boil pork neck bones, pick the meat from the bones and strain the stock, put the meat pulled, use salt, pepper, poultry seasonings. The sauce y'all got is off. Posted Tue, May 7 2013 8:27AM, darren Just made your sauce last nite and added tablespoon of honey deliciousPosted Mon, May 27 2013 9:53AM, Fred NOT an eastern NC BBQ sauce. You aren't a master if all you do is copy someone else.Josh, keep on posting your recipes, and ignore the haters.Posted Thu, Oct 23 2014 7:14PM, plasterers bristol Yummy sounds delicious this, thanks for posting this up.SimonPosted Tue, Nov 11 2014 6:27AM, Dean Too many folks like to split hairs these days. Posted Mon, Oct 24 2011 11:42AM, Texas Craig I hate to admit it, but this Dallas-born and raised boy had to modify the original recipe - it was TOO Hot!I used a different hot sauce, so that might have been the reason, but I doubled (at least) the brown sugar, and tripled the ketchup - was still a little bit too vinegar/spicey, but I thought I'd chalk it up to the experiencewe in the western-most Southern state prefer our bbq sauce sweeter and with more tomatoremember, it's just a preference, not a requirementthanks for the recipe to try!Posted Sun, Jan 8 2012 9:07PM, Jonathan Rice You forgot the most important thing.. 1 half a stick of butter.. thought about tossing with nc sauce then freezing. But I doubt I can find Texas Pete in Minnesota. He passed on us a while back. Fairly sweet, tangy from the mustard rather than vinegar. 100.0% carbs, But there is great slaw and there is cabbage with crap. Swig & Swine Style Mustard Sauce Recipe Yield: 64 Servings Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes A classic SC BBQ mustard-based barbecue sauce by Chef Anthony DiBernardo with a bright yellow color, tangy mustard flavor tempered by sweet undertones. ;)Posted Mon, Jun 23 2014 7:08PM, ATL Pirate I am a Greenville, NC native and truly miss a good pig pickin' and all the sides and fellowship that goes along with the event. :)Posted Fri, Aug 21 2015 2:58PM, BillS Great sauce! City Barbeque Swine Wine Sauce. I buy a pork tenderloin, rather large one and cook it in Georges hot carolina sauce. Everyone who has tried it has loved it on pulled pork with coleslaw on top and a toasted bun.Mustard based sauces are typically from SC, and is a whole different ballgame.I definitely will be giving your sauce a try, as it appears to be a good one. Please forgive me for the sin of buying bottled bbq sauce, but I found something called Scott's bbq sauce in Harris Teeter up here in Delaware, it worked wonderfully dressing a slow roasted shredded butt and it appears to be both Eastern NC and red in color enough to require matchup to properly emulate it. Shows how much people love their pork sauces. jar pimento, chopped and drained1 pint apple cider vinegar2 cups sugar or sweetener cup salt tsp. Pulled pork? My late father-in-laws institutional wholesale company used to sell to a lot of bbq restaurants of all sizes. While many places in the south can whip up a mean hushpuppy, Ralph's comes close to perfection, and with that fantastic BBQ to go with it, I'd highly recommend going out of your way to find them. Making a 4 cup batch, I used 1 packet of Raw Sugar and 1 teaspoon of molasses (as I was out of brown sugar). Should I have cooked it longer?Posted Thu, Aug 16 2018 5:13PM, Josh @Reinamom It's supposed to be thing, about the same thickness as apple cider vinegar by itself.Posted Thu, Aug 16 2018 5:43PM, Mary The first time I had this style bbq was in a place called Magnolia NC. ONE OF THESE DAYS I am going to join a cook out in NY! I'm not a fan of Tabasco, because I feel that it is simply spicy hot without any flavor. $7.79 +. But an absolute must when brewing up my homemade sauce is a top quality apple cider vinegar and I believe there is non better than Braggs. You'll know when you get there. When: Friday, 3 to 9 p.m.; Saturday . All rights reserved. Born and raised in W-S, NC. Just reading this recipe and many of the comments, I know this concoction is good and I will be trying it.And if Carolinians think only Pork is BBQ, they don't know much about BBQ. Eaten pulled pork here in central NC 4 times now and still haven't tasted a hint of smoke in any of them but usually the pork is at least good. On purpose or are those fingers on the wrong keys? Posted Sat, Jul 19 2014 11:57AM, cheri ATL Pirate thanks for the 'Fresh' outlook from a NC native. Obviously I am not a purist, because I think the tiny amount of ketsup is ok and adds nice color without impacting flavor much. Whisk until the sugar and salt is completely dissolved, remove from heat, and allow to cool to room temperature. For dinner, split a full slab of pork baby back ribs . Choose a sauce: Original Sauce, Sweet City Sauce, Brushfire Sauce, LowCo Mustard Sauce, Swine Wine Sauce Beef Brisket $8.49 Choice of style. $$ sweetswinebbq@gmail.com Closed now 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Food Truck See menu Photos See all Videos See all 499. The difference in the cole slaw is extremely different from the yellow Eastern NC version to the red Lexington style slaw. 499. However, I can't imagine it's something I'd want to see made (it's called "head cheese" for a reason.) In fact, my second favorite vinegar sauce recipe comes from a cousin of mine and it contains sugar and ketchup. The reason the tomato ketchup is not used in the eastern style is cause the Eastern is a purist style the meat is supposed to stand on its own. And the other reason is Eastern Carolina sauce is meant to baste the hog throughout the barbecuing process if the sauce contains sugar the hog will burn during the hot smoking process.When I do Eastern Carolina barbecue I prepare it the purist way and then I have several different finishing sauces I make which people can or cannot choose to use. I believe it has been made popular relatively recently by Bob Gibson's. It's under lock and key, and won't be casually doled out to just anyone! I have been eating carolina sauces all my life and cooking it at firestations all over NC. I added a little less vinegar and more hot sauce and red pepper flakes to my second batch. Just a few comments to add:I've been in Texas for more than 20 years and never had any trouble finding Texas Pete's. I can't pick a favorite because I love them all.Posted Thu, Dec 20 2018 3:41AM, Vincent Ketchup?????? . out on the highway. I was very surprised how mild "hot" food is here. Love Josh B's recipes and wish to hell I could attend one of his Grilling Get-Togethers.Cheri from Treasure Island, Flor'Yda with Tenn and Illinois rootsGo figure on MY taste in great BBQ sauce. ^.^ Thanks so much!Posted Mon, Jan 27 2020 7:32PM, Shanna Travis Love this sauce! P3orion, there is an HEB in the big city 15 miles from here, I'll grab some. The sauce was thin but red so there was probably ketchup in it. The new Ponce City Market location marks the business' third storefront and opens on Mar. I discovered Carolina Sauce in 2013, and my taste has been changed forever away from tomato based sauce. Cabbage, grated (fine or coarse, your choice)2 lg. But I'm a Texan. This is some kind of bastard hybrid. Hell, you can use it on practically anything!!! When used as a mop, butter is often added. This can only be correctly called "National Chain Busboy Sauce". Check it out - LinkPosted Thu, Dec 15 2016 8:25AM, James Taylor I live in Wilmington, NC but was raised in Wadesboro, NC. This sauce hit the spot on my pulled pork sammys! From my original post, where the recipe called for only four ingredientscider vinegar, crushed red pepper, ground black pepper, and saltI've added only three additional. If you don't want it with as much kick, reduct the red pepper and cayenne by a teaspoon each, and increase the brown sugar by a tablespoon back to the original proportions.Posted Sun, Oct 21 2012 7:44AM, Doug Just wanted to say thank you for posting this. Smokin a 20lb brisket 18-20 hours is the epitome of what BBQ is - curmudgeon tendencies be damned. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour if possible to extract the flavors from the celery seeds and the vegetables. I always try and use fruit wood when I smoke my pork butts with peach being my favorite. Its like most home cooked stuff, dont measure, just keep the proportion of ingredients and taste/add ingredients till its to your liking. Some of my pop's Tennessee tomato based sauce cooked on the pulled pork and some of the Carolina Tang on naked pulled pork. Posted Tue, Jul 16 2013 7:30PM, charlotte stephens Can I base babyback ribs with this saucePosted Sun, Sep 29 2013 5:21PM, BBQGuru Inclusion of tomator kethcup clearly marks you as an amatuer and not to be taken seriously as a BBQ Pitmaster!Posted Thu, Oct 10 2013 6:36PM, cheri WHATEVER, BBQGuru, or so you call yourself. Then slice, shred and mix in sauce. BBQ Chicken: Ros, White Zinfandel, Gewrztraminer, Off-Dry Riesling. The swineapple sensation began slowly in 2015 when meat smoker Josh Bush of Laporte, Texas posted it on Facebook. You might lose some of the pepper "punch" after a while, but that much acid from the vinegar is going to prevent actual spoiling, especially if kept cold.Posted Fri, Jan 15 2016 10:47AM, tbearsghia Being from the middle section of NC The Piedmont Triad Area(Greensboro High Point Winston Salem). So, I'm going to try the vinegary thing. Im amazed so many things are called Texas this and Texas that and they aren't at all Texan. 1 teaspoon salt, to taste. Bbq Sauce Homemade. The flour dipping gives it a nice crispy, golden finish. After simmering for a few minutes and cooling, I added several packets of Splenda and adjusted the salt to taste. The charcuterie board and beverage glasses are etched with the PigCHAMP pig icon to add the perfect touch for any swine-o gathering! He said this was it, THIS WAS THE SAUCE THAT HE TRIED TO MAKE. We always had Kings Barbeque. I had a very expensive barbecue dinner at The Pit in Raleigh, and immediately knew that the original owner had not really disclosed his true award-winning recipe. Posted Tue, Oct 18 2016 11:25AM, p3orion Scott, I am perfectly swilling to concede that Texas beef is delicious. Heck, it's not even about pulled pork!Even though OKLAHOMA Joe is actually in Kansas City MISSOURI, he's still about 1200 miles too far west for this discussion of EASTERN NC barbecue.Posted Sat, Nov 12 2016 10:38AM, Nicole Kaldahl So much so I wouldn't frequent the place, even if they were right next door. Posted Sat, Dec 5 2015 11:41AM, In conclusion Over the many past decades I have heard countless debates about NC barbecue. red pepper or to taste1 quart tomatoes, mashed. The only downfall to smoking is that you may have it on the smoker for 12-15 hours. Your sauce looks and sounds great, thank you for sharing. ), so your regional arguments seem completely pointless to me.If it tastes good, *eat it*, even if it isn't the way it's "always been done".In the Midwest, meat has "always been done" with a package of Lipton's soup mix, a can of cream of mushroom soup, and a dollop of ketchup.This may be tradition, but it isn't worth saving!Innovation is not a bad thing, and it doesn't strike at the roots of your regional identity. But I use V8 juice, which adds a little depth of flavor too, without really CHANGING the flavor. $8.65 More Cowbell Award-winning beef brisket, provolone, peppers, onions, and horseradish sauce, all piled high on Texas toast. Back then it was the process, the event, and the technique that all led to a perfect barbecue. butt that's slow cookin' in the oven. i live alone. It's even in the Cole slaw. Wish me luck. Not the end of the world! I've never had true BBQ, being from Canada, but I love the way you guy's talk about it with passion. Perfect for any backyard barbecue or a special occasion like Memorial Day, Father's Day or Fourth! Posted Sun, Feb 4 2018 5:02PM, cheri Dick T, not sure your comment is understandable with all the 'characters' insert. Being of Southern roots, Tennessee and Florida, myself I find that Carolina Tang Sauce truly enjoyable and a pleasant change from ANY BBQ sauce on pulled pork. Making some sauce right now. Thank you, again. Add Liquids: Add ketchup, molasses, apple cider vinegar, and water and bring to a simmer. Not that I stand too much on authenticity.