Vinegar Sauce Recipe
- 2 cups cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar, or more to taste
- 5 teaspoons salt, or more to taste
- 4 teaspoons hot red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
- Combine the vinegar, ketchup, brown sugar, salt, red pepper flakes, black pepper, and white pepper with 1 1/3 cups of water in a nonreactive medium-size bowl and whisk until the sugar and salt dissolve. Taste for seasoning, adding more brown sugar and/or salt as necessary; the sauce should be piquant but not quite sour.
