North Carolina Vinegar Sauce

By kiwill

Ingredients

• 3 cups cider vinegar
• 4 1/2 tablespoons ketchup
• 3 tablespoon brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons coarse salt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Tabasco sauce
• = (or other hot sauce)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons hot red pepper flakes - (to 1 tbspn) -- or more to taste
• 1 1/2 teaspoons freshly-ground black pepper - (to 1 tbspn)

Preparation

Step 1

Combine ingredients in a nonreactive mixing bowl; whisk until salt and brown sugar dissolve. Taste for seasoning, adding hot pepper flakes as necessary.

Transfer sauce to clean (or even sterile) jars; refrigerate. It will keep for several months.