The other day when I started to make mango salsa, I couldn’t find the Ball canning book I use for the recipe so I googled to see if I could find a recipe for canning and I came across Carter and her Grow and Preserve Youtube Channel. She had made Mango Salsa from the same Ball book I was looking for so I was able to follow her video/notes and make mine. Of course, I then found the book.
While looking at other canning videos on the Grow and Preserve site, I came across a recipe she had canned for BBQ Sauce. This is the recipe she used and after she had canned up all the sauce, she kept scraping out what was in the pot and going on about how wonderful it was. I had planned to make rhubarb BBQ sauce but will do that probably tomorrow, but thought since Carter was going on so much about the sauce she made, I should at least try it.
I needed 1-1/2 pints of sauce for the Brunswick Stew I’m making today so I tripled the recipe Carter was using. Once it was ready to put into jars, I asked Vince to taste it and see if it needed anything. He said he thought it needed a bit of cloves. I may have mentioned on here that Chad had brought back some sauce from Louisiana and Vince loved it. That sauce has cloves in it and when Vince tasted the sauce I had made with the added cloves, he loved it. Tripling the recipe gave me 11 half pints. I saved one to use with the pulled pork we had for dinner and canned the other 10.
But, I’m not sure I want cloves in ALL our BBQ sauce so I made another batch and left out the cloves. Since I knew the sauce was a recipe we loved, I quadrupled the recipe this time. I poured off 1-1/2 pints to use in the Brunswick Stew and ended up with 12 half pints to can.
It’s hard to see inside the jar with the overhead light on but it’s a good, thick sauce.
The best part, this is a sweet, tangy sauce with no high fructose corn syrup. The two commercial sauces we have used have high fructose corn syrup and we’re on a mission to rid our pantry and fridge of all products that contain high fructose corn syrup. We may never be rid of every bit of it but we’re trying our best.
Pam says
I recently discovered Carter also. I have ordered the canning book that she’s been canning meats from and can’t wait to get those quick meals on my pantry shelf. I’ve wanted to make that bbq sauce since I saw the video. I guess I need to make my canning list and start checking things off!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
There are so many things Carter has canned that I need to start making a list too.
Tee says
I made pulled pork the other day and wanted to can it, found a recipe but it just said something vague like “add beef stock or bbq sauce, if you like”. I grabbed a commercial bottle of bbq sauce and decided quickly to not put that in my beautiful pulled pork (that I had spent 2 days on marinating and cooking), when I read the ingredients and I think the second ingredient after water was HFCS. Yuck! So I found a southern bbq homemade sauce without sugar or corn syrup and it turned out really nice.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Good for you!