Vinegar and mustard go so well together in a BBQ sauce. It is easy, cheap, and fast to make. But the slaw was to die for. Posted Thu, May 8 2014 2:45PM, Catherine Looks like a nice middle of NC sauce! After simmering for a few minutes and cooling, I added several packets of Splenda and adjusted the salt to taste. The further east or west you go the more extreme to their sauce they will tend to.Posted Wed, Dec 6 2017 1:45PM, Dick T Born and raised in W-S, NC. Put vinegar, sugar, salt and red pepper in blender and pulse until sugar is dissolved. Ive been using this recipe as my starting point for years. I've asked my brother who is a great cook to critique to see what he thinks might improve that famous taste. Our sauces can really be broken down simply, if it's thick and sweet its from well west of Charlotte. She would use whatever pork she had on hand. Usually a bit sweeter and thicker than Eastern style. What everyone is saying about the true "Eastern" sauces is true you show up with any more than 3-4 ingridents in it and you don't know what you're doing, and none of the 4 or 4 better be ketchup. Note I didnt list how much of each, thats because it depends on whos making it, though it always starts with a gallon of apple cider vinegar. Wine & Swine BBQ LLC. thought about tossing with nc sauce then freezing. You might like these things (a lot) but that doesn't suddenly qualify them to be called something they're not.Posted Sat, Apr 25 2015 7:14PM, p3orion Don't be a pretentious ass, Carpetbgger. Currently there is no recipe available for City Barbeque Swine Wine Sauce, however here are some other copycat recipes you might be interested in: You may also check if there are any coupons and deals available to save on this and many other That should round everything out and sounds about right. The best I've had omits the molasses and flakes. What the heck????? The pure pepper vinegar sauce you seem to think is the only "real" NC sauce is indigenous to the eastern parts of the state, but once you get to Raleigh, there's still almost 400 miles of North Carolina to go. Ingredients 1 quart milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 whole eggs 5 egg yolks 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup all-purpose flour Pinch salt 4-5 bananas Vanilla Wafers Instructions Bring milk and vanilla to a simmer in a double boiler. Once cool, de-bone and chop the meat finely and set aside. 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. Market value: $240. add about a cup of dark brown sugar, a half bottle of Texas Pete, 1/2 cup salt, a 1.5 oz bottle of McCormick crushed red pepper flakes and a shot of bourbon to the cider vinegar jug. bleh! 1 Serving : 250: Banana Pudding. Don't use a blending/chopping machine that introduces too much air. I was slayed by Short Sugar's in Reidsville. Cook macaroni al dente and drain. I passed this post on to my friend @cyndiallison that lives in NC and knows here sauces. vinegar, water, butter, salt, and pepper (red & black) -- wonderfully simple and and simply wonderful. You can certainly substitute another hot sauce, like Tabasco, but Texas Pete has a flavor and history unique to NC, which is why I used it here.Posted Sun, Aug 8 2010 10:07PM, JoshGrillsItAll Have you tried the mustard/vinegar sauces from South Carolina? Posted Tue, Mar 8 2011 10:48AM, wes I'm from SC, too, where have sort of a sauce schizophrenia, based on region, but I've always been partial to the eastern NC and SC vinegar based or the midlands SC vinegar/mustard base. I buy a pork tenderloin, rather large one and cook it in Georges hot carolina sauce. People have some strong opinions about their BBQ sauce! I prefer something with a little more kick (Addiction Bhut Jolokia / Marie Sharps). don't want to end up with dried out pork after spending 8 hours slow roasting a loin with bacon fat and dry rub. A gallon of sauce was always needed because when it came to BBQ, that meant whole-hog. Born and raised in Wilmington. This weekend I am going to use a combination of peach and bourbon barrell oak wood. Drooling already! Smoked 6 cases of butts 8-10 lb avg ea. Great hot sauce with a unique, natural flavor. The flour dipping gives it a nice crispy, golden finish. The best place to get a good ole southern dinner, the pork was delish and so was the rest of the chicken, hush puppies and so on and so on. I never measure a thing and its never the same twice- yet pretty close every time. I have been eating carolina sauces all my life and cooking it at firestations all over NC. About; Contact; All Recipes; Design by Grace + Vine Studios. Share 0 Tweet 0 Pin it 0 Fancy +1. The key is the proper balance of meal and liver. Located within Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee, visitors can . But, there is nothing like a Carolina vinegar based sauce. I was that way with my "fried mush" that I used to have as a child and found the basic recipes for scrapple very close to what I was looking for. I bet they were good! City Barbeque location. He will take this proclaimed perfect sauce & change it, to "improve" it. And even if I have to adjust flavors, regardless of regional distinctions, I can do that well. Another was made with sausage and sweetened condensed milk.My ancestors would come back and haunt mePosted Fri, Jan 1 2016 1:03PM, countryliving My mother used to fix what we called "fried mush". ;) %u2764%uFE0FPosted Wed, Oct 19 2016 12:34AM, Scott %u201CYou may all go to hell and I will go to Texas for the cue'.%u201D Davy Crockett Abe Lincoln told me to believe everything you read on the internet. Meanwhile, in a large heavy pot or Dutch Oven over medium heat, cook the ground pork until 1/2 done. :)Posted Fri, Aug 21 2015 2:58PM, BillS Great sauce! I'll be trying this recipe but I will not be adding ketchup as I've got eastern roots. Hope to be able to join one of your get-to-gethers someday. Until now make it taste right.Posted Sat, Mar 8 2014 11:06AM, jerry v Well I live in va but born and raised in eastern nc my grandfather and relative's raised hogs and cooked them in a pit.I use his sauce and I have never in 50 yrs ever put or heard anyone put ketchup in the E N C sauce.Posted Thu, Mar 13 2014 10:51AM, Mike's Carolina BBQ Sauce Seasoning Excellent info here. Posted Sun, Feb 4 2018 5:17PM, Dick T Cheri, obviously we cannot use quotation marks on this site. The ingredients were based on items readily available on the farm and in the early 1900s for most that was brown sugar. Sorry!Posted Sun, May 18 2014 2:44PM, protomeat This recipe is pretty much exactly a Piedmont or Lexington style North Carolina barbecue finishing sauce. You're a brave man, Josh, and I will try your recipe (and a few others mentioned in the comments).Posted Sun, Jan 3 2016 8:47PM, countryliving p3orion, good luck with the liver pudding. Shucks, I'm hungrier than a tick on an scrawny dog! He also let me know that the pork was "so smoky" flavored that he probably wouldn't be able to tell anyway (giving me a reprieve?). For the beer drinkers, we tried the Parish Brewing Co. SIPS Pinot Noir Black Currant Sour for $5 for 6 oz. A little different but tasty. And it could even be credibly argued that smoking a brisket and ending up with an edible product takes more finesse (and perhaps, more skill) than does a more forgiving piece of meat like a pork shoulder.But suffice it to say that the much-revered Davy Crockett, though he died at the Alamo, originally came from Tennessee, and would quite likely have agreed with ME!Posted Tue, Oct 18 2016 4:50PM, Nicole Kaldahl Hahahaha I hate to chime in, but I was told I came across as "smug" when I said "Texas" to a man that asked where I was from in a hotel lobby. The best barbecue sauce I have ever had is King's Barbecue Sauce was in Greensboro, NC.Unbelievable! )I suppose they have their purposes, the "Bama white sauce is pretty good on chicken, But it just ain't "barbecue. A good example is Maurice Bessinger's, based in Columbia. LowCo Barbeque Sauce. My Dad gave me his recipe. Scott's is a traditional Eastern NC sauce made in Goldsboro, which is the heart of ENC BBQ country. After reading through ALL of the comments here I've decided to add a little garlic and possibly a bit of sugar but that's it.Thanks for all the comments! Posted Tue, Oct 16 2012 6:39PM, Bob I doubled the recipe with slight changes, including ditching the ketchup, and substituting cayenne pepper for texas pete and kicking up the heat a notch and it was a hit at our annual bonfire party last night:4 cups apple cider vinegar3 tablespoons dark brown sugar4 teaspoons cayenne pepper4 teaspoons red pepper flakes2 teaspoon ground black pepper4 teaspoons kosher saltI added this to a 4 quart crockpot full of diced roast pork. Looks like this is the oneI'll let you know how it turns out. (Of course, not the healthiest craving to develop).Posted Mon, Jan 4 2016 6:40AM, Ann How long will this last in the fridge? The swineapple sensation began slowly in 2015 when meat smoker Josh Bush of Laporte, Texas posted it on Facebook. I'm also growing to love their mustard based sauces for pork and chicken. We Also Recommend i become a vampire because of how people treat me, this world is a wicked world and not fair to any body. 389 likes. I have eaten BBQ from the mountains to the coast. I'd love guidance from somebody on how to make some that's similar to the store-bought Neese's or Carolina Pride I remember from when I was a kid.Posted Thu, Jan 3 2013 12:15PM, Eddie The above comments about no ketchup in Eastern NC dip are correct, but you have so little in there I can't imagine it will supply much more than color. Give it a shot. you'll love it. did not brine this time because of the bacon fat. "Seat of the pants navigation." Ingredients 1 quart French's yellow mustard 2 tsp cayenne I made Crockpot Old South Pulled Pork on a Bun recently and it was delicious! $10.35 Pulled Chicken Smoked chicken, pulled from the bone and mixed with scratch-made 'bama sauce. Share Fancy. They gobbled it up. We went to Albemarle, NC to Whispering Pines Restaurant for BBQ. Welcome to 'the melting pot'. 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. But anyway, if you ask me, you smoke it low and slow and it's BBQ no matter what meat it is, and it should be delicious before any sauce at all has been put on it. Sit me down at any table in any region in this county where the pork is smoked, pulled and enjoyed and I'll try any of your local sauces to compliment it. Quillin transformed Sugar Shane's ghost kitchen in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood into a storefront open to the public in the summer of 2021 and followed it with a location in Sandy Springs in 2022. Smoked Chicken Sandwich. Ahhhh!!! The cayenne based sauce was created in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and I don't think I could make anything and label it "North Carolina" without adding at least a little Texas Pete. 4 Mojo BBQ Old CityMojo Hogtown Bar-B-Que Brick City Southern . Enough spring mix, cucumbers, tomatoes, cheese, and onions for 10-12 folks. It's spot on. All the best bar b q joints in the area use some variation. I even make a big batch at Christmas for gifts. 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. While smoking is preferred, grilling low-and-slow works well too. Mac and Cheese Waffle Recipe. 100 % 4g Carbs. Oh, this is my OWN recipe"Posted Sun, Sep 27 2015 4:50PM, Nicole Kaldahl Here I've been thinking it's purely men never being satisfied with what they have. Those that want to split hairs & trash it without trying it, more for me! 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 Thu, May 2 2013 9:46PM, Al I don't care where the darn sauce is from,if it is goodeat it!Posted Tue, May 7 2013 3:22AM, Cheri Well said AL! It was the very best. Also great with chicken!!!! Bennett's is a %u201Cno meat%u201D chili sauce. City Barbeque Samplers Judge's Sampler with 2 Individual Sides $41.99 Brisket, pulled pork, 1/4 chicken, half slab of ribs, two pint sides, two cornbreads, Texas toast. So, I'm going to try the vinegary thing. All that I find call for "one pig's liver" rather than a weight. Thank you! I believe this step ended up being pretty crucial, since the sauces that got the heat treatment ended up tasting a little more vibrant and cohesive in the end. "Posted Sun, Apr 26 2015 12:58AM, Martin P I don't care what anybody says about this sauce. Even some commercial brands have far too much meal. Begin making a roux by adding a little bit of flour at a time . Put the swineapple on the grill over the drip pan with the bacon seam-side down. Small Party Salad. YUCK.I live in Connecticut now and have my own electric smoker so I can make my TN barbecue and my own vinegar sauce. Pulled pork marinated in vinegary Swine Wine and topped with creamy slaw $9.59 + Pulled Pork Hand-rubbed, smoked over local hickory wood, and pulled to order $8.99 + Beef Brisket Award-winning for a reason: smoked for up to 18 hours and always carved to order $11.99 + Nashville Hot Chicken As my great grandpa told my grandpa during the depression "shut up and eat!" Original Sauce. After this long process, you don't need what folks think of as barbecue sauce today. My grandmother made the sauce in a 10 gallon batch at a time. LOL I guess I'll add my twist as well since I cook a lot of BBQ. ;)Posted Wed, Oct 19 2016 10:54PM, okjoesdc1 Oklahoma Joe's BBQ The Best BBQ in America. Use Josh's Carolina Tang regularly on pulled pork and other meats. I fell in love with the magic it imparted onto some smoky pork in North Carolina and I feel it's replicated incredibly well at home now. Watch on. Tabasco also has a very noticable, unique, and distinct flavor that works best with foods like red beans and rice and gumbo, which makes sense considering where it comes from. She cooked it for hours in sauce and we only had the pork the bun grilled in a sandwhich press. The reason it's so popular is because of the simplicity. Are you a City BBQ Rewards Member? But I doubt I can find Texas Pete in Minnesota. However, I doubt the difference is really noticeable with only 2 Tbs mixed into more than 2 cups of other ingredients. Chill. I can't put my finger on it, but something is wrong. good bacon! I lived in Raleigh for 16 years and had a sales territory of Chapel Hill to the coast, so I had the true pleasure of eating at every little mom and pop Eastern NC joint I could find (Ralph's in Roanoke Rapids, Olde Tyme in Raleigh, and the little one in Williamston were my favorites). 12 teaspoon ground black pepper. For me, I prefer Thai food as prepared in Thailand; Greek as in Athens; NC bbq as written in Eastern NC--save the ketchup for your steak ; ) **Credentials--Chapel Hill born, Wilmington raised and Jackson's Big Oak BBQ**Posted Mon, Jul 10 2017 2:56AM, p3orion Keep in mind that although eastern North Carolina purists are perfectly within their rights to indulge a fanatical insistence on NO KETCHUP, there's a whole lot of North Carolina that is NOT east of Fayetteville, and where people are perfectly willing to follow a more relevant guideline: what tastes good.Posted Mon, Jul 10 2017 9:11AM, James B Taylor Credentials-Portsmouth, VA born, Wadesboro, NC raised, Time in Raleigh, Fayetteville and Wilmington(43 yrs now) BBQ choice Whispering Pines in Albemarle, NC. To that end, they have made a tacit communal vow to oppose any tomato-based product in any "true" Eastern NC sauce.I love me some good beef brisket when I am in Texas, but I also exercise a curmudgeonly refusal to call it "barbecue", in honor to my Carolina roots. Its like most home cooked stuff, dont measure, just keep the proportion of ingredients and taste/add ingredients till its to your liking. Picnic Shoulder on the Outlaw. Is this the same sauce? Rendezvous Bistro 's oyster happy hour features $2 oysters everyday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., but be sure to arrive on the earlier side or you may leave disappointed. Tennessee, what have you done for me lately? at the snack of my finger things are made happened. red pepper or to taste1 quart tomatoes, mashed. Ive tried this recipe and I like it a lot. The first restaurant BBQ I ever tasted was at A&M Grill in Mebane, NC. Like what's on your plate at the end of playing with all the sauces on the table at Famous Dave's. It is only slighly hotter than Texas Pete's and is still on the milder end of hot sauces. Pulled Chicken. Of course smoked pork is going to have a better flavor than one cooked in a gas pig cooker. But Josh's fixings really got me hooked. red pepper1 quart tomatoes, mashed. 1 tbsp : 25: Baja Turkey. How good it was on beef, pork, mutton and sheep which was cut up in chunks, big as your fist. 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. Hell, you can use it on practically anything!!! They just didn't tell you about it.For my finishing Piedmont sauce I don't use any ketchup - I prefer tomato paste a little roasted garlic.I don't use anything with high fructose corn syrup which most ketchup includes. Until well into the '80s, wings were practically throw-away cheap, because there was so little use for them.By the way, you're right about Frank's being almost as good as Texas Pete, but Frank's Wing Sauce is even better than original Frank's as an all-purpose hot sauce. No mayo!!! They have a lady there who does nothing but cook hushpuppies all day, for goodness sake, and hushpuppies show up on the table when the waitress brings the water. Texas-style smoked beef sausage in a natural pork casing, served on Texas toast with coleslaw. He hadn't learned by now he just f**** it up. Original Sauce. My sister was married on the beach in NC though she was living in Seattle. However, I do think I will try what some have suggested and add just a touch of brown sugar to the sauce. The only change I make is to add 1 heaping tbs of chili powder. "Posted Fri, Sep 19 2014 7:20PM, Becky The only time I was in North Carolina was a one-hour layover in Charlotte (and a lovely airport it is, by the way! Started searching for some sauces for the pulled pork, and think it's the coolest thing, all the differences in sauces even from county to county in the Carolinas- to this kid from the Adirondacks, it's all good. Get City Barbeque Swine Wine Sauce delivered to you in as fast as 1 hour via Instacart or choose curbside or in-store pickup. Its kind of like Texans telling the rest of the world what chili is. 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. Top notch, A , 5*! I use this as my reference when I make mine. But it got two lip smacking thumbs up from King Gastronome. As a Texas native (bread and buttered here) pork, in all of its glory, shapes and sizes is a favorite of mine to throw on a smoker & is considered 'cue. Makes no matter wether you want to bicker where the sauce is famous or what part of which state.FACT IS that Josh's "Carlolina Tang" sauce is an awesome blend for pulled pork! I'm a Texas native and I found this sauce to be an amazing compliment to some pulled pork. for those of you that insist ketchup is taboo in eastern nc. Onward to the grillin!Posted Sat, Jul 19 2014 1:29PM, Jeff Great recipe! I opened a restaurant in tyrone ga. called barbeque junction where i served a wide variety of sauces hence "the Junction" the house sauce was a half gal of cider vinegar, a qt or so of water,1/4 cup of salt, 3tbl sp granulated garlic, 3tbl sp onion powder, 5 tbl sp crushed red pepper brought the mix to a boil on the stove then put in the fridge over night. Eastern NC is a no ketchup land BUT this is good sauce - kinda reminds me of Peter's Beach Barbecue Sauce. I'm hoping the smokiness of the chipotle will make up for the lack of smoke flavor in my meat.Posted Tue, May 22 2012 5:04PM, Seline Eastern North Carolina Style is strictly east of Raleigh. It was just so yummy and the ONLY WAY I knew how to eat a good pulled pork sandwich until I found this sauce. Tastes mainly of vinegar and brown sugar but there's more in there than that.I do very miss that good old BBQ brisket though. Until I could get it again, I used Frank's or Trappey's, both of which are a bit closer to Texas Pete in flavor than Chulula. I am Texan that loves her Texas BBQ, have a bit of a competitive streak & I enjoy the praise I get when my wanna-be food critic hubby gives it. Join us for our wine dinner on the 13th at Keepers on Slaughter Lane . Too, like todays flavorless chicken, pork that was naturally raised had FAR more flavor. Now you can add Allow to simmer and reduce for 4-5 minutes then add the parsley and season to taste. MAP IT! However, to state that brisket, beef ribs, shoulder clod, rib roasts, tri tips etc aint 'cue (or aint supposed to be), is a personal affront to the BBQ gods (and they could punish you with thick billowing white smoke in your rig should you not repent). With a couple sugars and salt in the mix, I thought it would be best to give the sauce a quick boil to help dissolve the solids. $8.05 Pulled Pork This is for those of you that prefer a little drier wine thanmy normal recipe.You asked for a wine less sweet and I listened.You will NOT be disappointed in . 2 cups barbecue sauce (optional) Instructions Mix together the rub ingredients in a small bowl. Pork was a huge part of our diet. Any left overs goes on to dress collard/mustard/turnip greens. Gotta bite to it we're not familiar with. It's hard to go wrong with vinegar sauces on bbq and I don't think my taste buds will ever disagree. Don't forget the slaw, which is another argument all by itself.