subject: Southern Barbecue Sauce: The Best Of Southern California Barbecue Sauce [print this page] The Scottish families that immigrated to the southern state of North Carolina primarily settled in Williamsburg County where they are most well known for their vinegar and pepper based barbecue sauce recipes.
The most well known present day Scottish barbecue clan is the Brown family. However, the Scott and McCabe like those of the German families are known for remaining true to their heritage.
This easy vinegar and pepper based bbq sauce is the first and the oldest recipe of the Southern Carolina sauces.
Another type of barbecue sauce discovered in South Carolina, the tomato based version, was a combination of the original vinegar and pepper based sauce combined with ketchup. Because of the popularity of this barbecue sauce recipe, ketchup became more available as a condiment starting in the year 1900.
In addition, the fourth sauce that followed this evolution in Southern Carolina was the heavy tomato based barbecue sauce. This sauce is very new to the south, only being used in the past sixty years or so, and has spread like wild fire all over the nation because modern transporting and marketing. It gives the modern American true satisfaction for the sweet tooth!
This heavy tomato sauce is can often be found in the popular barbecue brands that are put out by popular American store bought companies because of the modern day transportation industry. Most Americans know the formula as the traditional formula of bbq sauce.
Unfortunately, because most Americans have heard about barbecue sauce other than what they have heard on television commercials or have bought on store shelves, they have not been able to understand the true background and preparation process that are used to create these historical recipes.
Therefore, most Americans have accepted the traditional barbecue sauce that is offered from companies as the only true sauce to use when grilling. Sadly, they are truly missing out on the most unique and incredible variations of authentic barbecue sauce recipes available to them, particularly the ones originating from the south.
However, if you get the chance to go over some of the historical recipes like the southern German and Scottish vinegar and pepper and added tomato bases, you wont be disappointed in the taste that you will amaze your friends and family with, and you can feel good about the fact that you actually did do a little bit of your homework rather than bowing out to head to the grocery store to buy a bottle.
