Rodney’s Sauce by Rodney Scott

You know you have it right when you taste a few drops of the finished sauce and, after you taste it, your mouth forms a kiss.

Photo by Jerrell Guy

Excerpted with permission from Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ: Every Day is a Good Day by Rodney Scott and Lolis Eric Elie.

Back in Hemingway we used to make barbecue sauce right next to the pit. The pots we used were too big to really fit on a kitchen stove, plus it was more efficient to use hot coals from the pit as our heat source. We…