Recipe - Classic Homemade Barbecue Sauce

2 tablespoon Vegetable oil
1 small Onion, finely chopped
2 Garlic cloves, finely
chopped
1 teaspoon Red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon Chile powder or paprika
1 One half cup Ketchup
One half cup Amber beer or ale
One fourth cup Cider vinegar
One fourth cup Water
One fourth cup Brown sugar
2 tablespoon Dijonstyle mustard
2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Salt and ground black pepper
Tabasco sauce, optional or
to taste

In a saucepan cook onions in oil over moderate heat until tender. Stir in
garlic, red pepper flakes and chile powder and cook for 1 minute. Add
ketchup, beer, vinegar, water, brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce,
salt, black pepper, and Tabasco sauce, stirring to combine. Partially cover
and simmer until slightly thickened about 15 to 20 minutes. Taste and
adjust seasoning, if necessary, with Tabasco sauce. Remove sauce from heat
and allow to cool completely. Sauce can be refrigerated for 2 to 3 weeks or
frozen for up to 1 month.

Yield: about 2 cups

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8909 Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #652 by
"Angele and Jon Freeman" jfreeman@netusa1.net on Jun 30, 1997