Our Favorite Barbeque Sauce

I love barbeque sauce.   Sweet and sticky meat is the best meat of all.   I love it.

So I was thrilled when I got a slab of ribs for cheap...well, cheaper than usual... and wanted to have it with some homemade barbeque sauce and then Claire hopped on my Pinterest food board and found this recipe for Brown Sugar Barbecue Sauce.   We tried it and loved it.  

Tip, via my fabulous sister:   Wrap the ribs in foil and cook them on low in your crockpot all day.   By dinnertime, the meat will be falling off the bones and all you have to do is slather it with sauce and pop it in the broiler to caramelize the sauce a bit. To. Die. For.  Or you can serve the sauce on the side.   Or both!     The same technique works for frozen chops as well.   Easy squeezy!

I love this sauce so much that I multiplied the recipe by a lot and canned it so we'd always have it on hand.   Here is the expanded recipe.  Enough for your own pantry and gifts as well.

Robin's Favorite Barbeque Sauce
www.rurification.com

7 1/2 cups brown sugar
6 1/2 cups ketchup
1/2 cup molasses
1 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
3 rounded tablespoons mustard powder
3 tablespoons salt
3 tablespoons paprika [smoked paprika is really good, too!]
3 tablespoons black pepper
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 tablespoon garlic powder  or 1 entire head of garlic, peeled and minced
1 tablespoon onion powder  or 2 onions, minced
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes


Mix all ingredients together in a large pot and bring to boil.   Ladle into clean jars; cover with lids and rings and process for canning. 

Makes 8 pints of sauce.  Perfect for giving as gifts. 

Crockpot Bread

It's been hot this year.

You've probably noticed.

We've been looking for ways to not use the oven.

We hit on the not-so-new-idea to use the crockpot to bake bread in.   A simple Google search will take you to dozens of people who did it before we did.

It's easy.

First, make your favorite bread dough.

While it's rising, find a trivet or some canning lids that will fit in the bottom of your crockpot.

Now find a glass or metal container that will fit inside your crockpot on top of the trivet or lids.

Turn your crockpot on high and pour a cup of water into the bottom of it with the trivet or lids.








Grease the bowl and put it on top of the trivet, inside the crockpot.

Put the dough in the bowl and cover it all.











It took about 4 hours for ours to bake through, but when it was done it was one of the tenderest loaves we've ever made.










It was great with jam.   And it didn't heat the house up.

Next up we're trying it with some homemade yeast.   I'll keep you posted.