Is there a recipe for red sauce? Its a mix of some kind of cayenne pepper and vinegar. They have it at Smithfields as Rib Sauce, and interestingly enough I went to a outlying restaurant near Baton Rouge down here that had nearly the same stuff but sold it as tiger sauce.

Is this a common recipe then?

6/22/2008 12:52:10 PM

6/22/2008 12:52:39 PM

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6/22/2008 12:52:53 PM

6/22/2008 12:53:26 PM

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6/22/2008 12:53:57 PM

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6/22/2008 12:54:47 PM

Umm...must be a NC dialect thing....every time ive heard "red sauce" anywhere else in the country, they were talking about a tomato sauce...like the kind you'd put on pasta

6/22/2008 12:59:49 PM

Red Sauce is pasta sauce. Even to those of us in NC.

Peter, you are looking for standard rib sauce which pretty much pepper vinegar and ketchup.

* 1 1/2 cups cider vinegar
* 10 tablespoons ketchup
* 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
* 1 pinch red pepper flakes
* 1 tablespoon white sugar
* 1/2 cup water
* salt and black pepper to taste

6/22/2008 2:27:18 PM

that looks about right. i called it red sauce because that's what my friends ask for when they go to smithfields. maybe they're saying rib sauce, i'm kind of hard of hearing sometimes

6/22/2008 2:28:19 PM

It's rib sauce.



But yeah, that's pretty much what it is. You can tweak the ingredients to taste, simmer, and there you go.

6/22/2008 2:30:18 PM