Kansas City BBQ Sauce

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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.

SERVES 4 to 6 (Makes about 4 cups)

Kansas City BBQ Sauce

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

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 ...

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