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Title: Sky's Family Secret Bbq Sauce
Categories: Sauces
Yield: 1 Batch

4 lg Onions; up to 5; chopped
3/4 c Butter; sliced in pats
3 cl Garlic; up to 4; minced
15 oz Bottle A1 steak sauce
15 oz Bottle Worcestershire sauce
1/2 c Honey; or more; to taste
1 lg Lemon (optional)

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2 tb Corn starch; or more,
-heaping
1/2 c Water

Here is my recipe for the 'secret' BBQ sauce I grew up with.
Recently, I learned this family recipe is not so secret after all!
Over the years, I've slightly modified the original recipe to suit my
personal taste. The 'secret' two ingredients are "A1 Steak Sauce" and
Worcestershire Sauce, in equal portions. I do not believe there is
any substitute for the A1 Steak Sauce, which is commonly found in the
USA. So, here's the 'secret' recipe that's no longer secret ;D - Sky

Roughly chop onions -- the more chopped onions, the better (four or
five large onions of choice). Place chopped onions in large 3 or 4 qt
sauce pan and put on a stove burner over medium-high heat.

Slice butter into large pats and add to chopped onions.

Add chopped or minced garlic (about 3 or 4 cloves, or more to taste)
to the sauce pan and stir.

If using this BBQ sauce for fowl or pork, zest the peel of an entire
lemon into the sauce pan with the onions, garlic, and butter. Slice
the zested lemon into halves or quarters and squeeze juice through a
strainer (to catch the seeds) into the sauce pan.

Occasionally stir contents until the butter is melted.

Then, empty well-shaken contents of the 15 oz bottle of A1 Steak
Sauce into the sauce pan with the onions - do not discard the bottle,
yet. Remove the special plastic spout from the top of a 15 oz bottle
of Worcestershire Sauce and pour half of its contents into the empty
bottle of A1 Steak Sauce. Replace the cap onto the "A1" bottle and
shake well, then pour into the sauce pan, along with the remaining
sauce from the Worcestershire bottle. Bottles may now be recycled or
discarded.

Drizzle and stir in the 1/2 to 3/4 cup of honey into the BBQ sauce.

Stir to thoroughly incorporate the ingredients. Cook over a medium
simmer and stir often until onions are translucent, about
30 minutes.

If desired, thicken BBQ sauce with a corn starch slurry -- 2 heaping
tb corn starch with 1/2 cup water. Stir in corn starch slurry and
bring BBQ sauce to a gentle boil for about 5 minutes -- stir very
frequently so the chopped onions don't settle and burn at the bottom
of the pan. If BBQ sauce gets too thick, then thin with either water
or chicken stock.

Let sauce cool. Remove a suitable portion of the BBQ sauce to slather
on favorite meats as they grill to perfection. Be sure to return
left-over 'used basting' BBQ sauce back to another sauce pan and
bring it to a boil for a few minutes to help prevent any potential
cross contamination that may have happened when the meat was basted.

Please note this particular BBQ sauce has a tendency to "blacken,"
which can be very very tasty ;)

Serve the BBQ Sauce on the side with the grilled meats. Refrigerate
any leftover BBQ Sauce.

Note: A blender (stick or conventional) can be used to smooth/puree
the BBQ sauce if desired.

* To reduce the recipe size, use 10 oz bottles of A1 Steak and
Worcestershire Sauces and 1/2 c butter instead.

Submitted: June 2009

Recipe by Skyhooks

Recipe FROM: <https://web.archive.org/web/20220629171405/
http://recfoodcooking.org/sigs/Skyhooks/
Sky's Family Secret BBQ Sauce .html>

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