Tom’s BBQ Sauce

This is a sauce that was a standard when I was growing up. It came from our uncle, Tom Nuggent, former head coach for FSU and the University of Maryland. It’s one of the few recipes that I got from my mom after heading off to college. I asked her to write down the recipe. She mailed it to me.

Almost 30 years later we’re unloading boxes from our last move and found this index card. Priceless.

The very THOUGHT that you could make your own BBQ sauce led me create our sauce about 10 years ago, which is the first recipe on ‘Foley Island Recipes.”

Tonight we had a dinner party, I cooked Chicken and Pork on the Orion, and for the first time in 20 odd years, I made Tom’s sauce. It was great…everything I remembered. How cool is that, from a faded index card…comes great food AND memories.

Combine…

1/2 cup vinegar

1 cup water

1 teaspoon pepper

4 Tablespoons sugar

2 Tablespoons mustard

3 teaspoons salt

1 lemon, sliced thin

2 onions, sliced

1/2 cup butter

Bring to a boil, simmer 20 minutes. Add 1 cup ketchup, 4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce.

Bring to a boil. Add to meat 5 minutes before serving.