A Barbecue Glaze In San Diego!
What is barbecue sauce?
According to Food Product Design, new evidence that barbecued meats were enjoyed by royalty and the rich as far back as 700 B.C. The first scientifically documented proof of barbecued meat consumption comes from the tomb of King Midas (730 to 700 B.C.), ruler of an empire that stretched from today’s northern Iraq to central Turkey. In the king’s tomb, pottery food jars were found to contain food residues. These residues were found to be barbecued goat or lamb.
Tracing the history of barbecue sauces in America is difficult because there are very few barbecue sauce recipes to be found in early cookbooks.
A few recipes for true barbecue, usually open-pit style, have been passed down in English and French literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In Nouveaux Voyages aux Isles d’Amerique by Jean B. Labot (1693), there is a description of a barbecued whole hog that is stuffed with aromatic herbs and spices, roasted belly up, and basted with a sauce of melted butter, cayenne pepper, and sage. The fragrant meat was sliced and served on leaves of an aromatic West Indian plant. See more here.
The History Of Barbecue Sauce
These prehistoric iron chefs discovered that they could also improve flavor and mouthfeel with smoke, salt, seeds, and leaves, as well as basting meat with wine, vinegar, and oils. Especially if the meat was on its way towards funky.
Preserved meats, especially dried meats, were often soaked in liquids to bring them back to life as stews, swimming in sauce based on such as water, oil, juices, dairy, and even blood. In fact the word sauce is said to come from an ancient word for salt.
According to Harold McGee’s superb book On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, in 239 BCE Chinese Chef I Yin, in “Master LÙ’s Spring and Autumn Annals” discusses the harmonious blending of sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, and salty, and the importance of balancing them harmoniously in sauces. “The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express in words; the mind cannot fix upon an analogy. It is like the subtlety of archery and horsemanship, the transformation of Yin and Yang, or the revolution of the four seasons.” The Yin and Yang of mixing sweet and sour is, of course, a Chinese specialty, and at the heart of most barbecue sauces. Check more here.
A Barbecue glaze will really stand out in the BBQ fixture, helping the range stay fresh in the minds of the people.
Make a BBQ-glaze
Don’t just make any barbecue sauce, try something different, try something “award winning”. This BBQ glaze is pretty easy, and has a sweet, sour flavor with mystery ingredients that provide aromatics. If you’re cooking meat tonight, this barbecue glaze is the perfect flavoring to add.
INGREDIENTS:
Makes 4 cups
* 2 cups ketchup
* ¾ cup brown sugar
* ¼ cup Dijon mustard
* ¼ cup cider vinegarHOW-TO:
1. Heat ketchup on medium-high heat in a heavy-bottom, 2-quart sauce pan.
2. Add the remaining ingredients and whisk until entirely incorporated. Read full article here.
Barbecue Glaze Is So Light, Moist And Delicious!
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