Red Pepper BBQ Sauce

Name: Red Pepper BBQ Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: about 1 cup (250 ml)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup (240 ml) Vinegar; about ½ lemon (5 g) Lemon; about 1½ tsp (4 g) Pepper; 1 tsp (2.5 g) Cayenne; about ¼ tsp (0.5 g) Red Pepper; 2 Tbsp (25 g) Sugar

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Rodney Scott recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Rodney Scott.

BBQ SAUCE · PULLED PORK & WHOLE HOG

In the published recipe, this is the bbq sauce for scaled 1/16 from gallon.

Rodney Scott's vinegar-pepper sauce for pulled pork.

On the jar

RED BBQ

Method: simmer
Yield: about 1 cup
Ingredients: 6

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Ratio

VINEGAR 240 ml

Ingredients

Vinegar1 cup (240 ml)
Lemonabout ½ lemon (5 g)
Pepperabout 1½ tsp (4 g)
Cayenne1 tsp (2.5 g)
Red Pepperabout ¼ tsp (0.5 g)
Sugar2 Tbsp (25 g)

Method

Pour to the lines in order (bottom → top): VINEGAR.
Shake-to-line (dashed marks): add SUGAR. Spoon in, shake, and top up until the settled level reaches each dashed line.
Season to finish: LEMON (about 1½ tsp), PEPPER (about 2 tsp), CAYENNE (about 1 tsp), RED PEPPER (about ¼ tsp).
Cap the jar and shake until combined.
Pour into a cold pan and bring to a gentle simmer. The jar stays off the stove. Cool leftovers briefly before they go back in the glass, then refrigerate promptly.

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3 kitchens · 4 national awards

Red Pepper BBQ SauceNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: RED BBQ
Cayenne-Pepper BBQ SauceNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: CAYENNE BBQ
Alabama White SauceNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: ALABAMA
Chile Powder BBQ SauceNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: REGULAR

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Provenance

South Carolina whole-hog BBQ pitmaster of Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ in Charleston; James Beard Best Chef: Southeast. Hemingway, S.C., pit traditions carried into restaurant form.

Originally published as Rodney's Sauce (vinegar-pepper).

Adapted from a Rodney Scott recipe (Rodney Scott's World of BBQ (scaled 1/16 from gallon)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

Yes, with one pan. Its liquids pour to the printed fill-lines and shake cold; the mix then goes into a pan to simmer. The jar itself never touches heat.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Rodney Scott's World of BBQ (scaled 1/16 from gallon) (published as “Rodney's Sauce (vinegar-pepper)”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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