Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2006, America's Test Kitchen TV
In Kansas City, barbecue is slathered with a thick, sweet, smoky, and sticky tomato-based sauce. Bottled sauces aren't bad, but the homemade version is tastier and easier than you think.
Our Kansas City BBQ Sauce recipe combines the usual sauce ingredients—ketchup, vinegar, molasses, hot sauce, mustard—with two unexpected ingredients: dark corn syrup and root beer, which give our barbecue sauce the sticky, sweet, and smoky ...