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Title: Barbecue Sauce #23
Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients

    1/2 lb smoked bacon; sliced or
           -cubed
  1 1/2 c  bacon fat; lard or drippings
           - (see no
      2 md onions; sliced (see notes)
      6    cloves garlic; ligntly
           -roasted and mince
      1 ts black pepper
    1/2 ts ground cloves
      2 ts ground allspice
    1/4 c  ground coriander seed
  1 1/2 c  brown sugar
    1/2 c  molasses
      3 c  malt or cider vinegar (see
           -notes)
    1/4 cn (7-oz) chipotle chiles in
           -adobo (to; taste)
      1 lb ham hocks or smoked bones
           -(see note; s)
      1 qt ketchup
      2 tb worcestershire

Instructions

From: tony.lima@toadhall.com (Tony Lima)

Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 11:54:00 -0700
(makes about 2-1/2 quarts) by Reed Hearon posted by Tony Lima
(tony.lima@toadhall.com)

1. In a large sauce pot render the bacon on low to medium heat until it is
lightly browned all over. Add the bacon fat or drippings and onions (see
notes) and continue cooking until the onions begin to brown. Add in the
garlic, pepper, clove, allspice and coriander and cook for one minute. Add
the brown sugar and molasses and simmer for one hour (see notes).

2. Add the vinegar, chipotles and ham hocks, bring to a boil, reduce to a
simmer and cook until the volume is reduced by half.

3. Add the ketchup and Worcestershire and slowly simmer for 3 to 4 hours,
stirring occasionally (see notes). Strain.

Note (added by Tony from notes taken while watching Reed make this sauce):

1. Drippings from a smoked brisket can (should?) be used in place of or in
addition to the bacon fat.

2. Use white onions if possible instead of yellow onions.

3. Use a vinegar that will complement whatever beverage you're serving:
malt vinegar with beer, wine vinegar with wine, cider vinegar with hard
cider, and so on.

4. Have the butcher split the bones. They should be added to the bacon
while rendering. Reed also added the garlic cloves to the bacon while
rendering to roast the garlic.

5. Simmering the sauce in step 1 is done to kill the sweetness.

6. Simmering times in step 3 are a minimum; overnight is better.

7. "Barbecue" is Reed's spelling, not mine!

Copyright, 1996, Reed Hearon. Posted by permission. Permission is also
granted to include this recipe in the chile-head and barbeque archives.

bbq-digest V2 #065

From the BBQ recipe list. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
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