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Help - no worcestershire sauce!  What can I sub?

I was thinking watered down steak sauce or soy sauce.  I found a recipe for homemade (like fifteen ingredients, no....) that included soy sauce and apple cider vinegar (have both).

Any ideas?  Gotta slow cook this Boston Butt six hours.....usually great with worcestershire poured over it and rubbed with brown sugar.....   Okay, I mixed 1/2 cup soy sauce with 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar with 1 tbl. steak sauce.  Tasted.....stout. 

Mmmmm......smells good already, because the meat got warmed up while I decided what to do.  When I poured it on and added the brown sugar it smelled great.  Don't tell hubby I improvised, he never trusts me LOL.
Sounds right to me!

Boston Butt is a big piece of pork.  88 cents an lb. this week, so I froze one, too!  It has one bone in it, not big, you aren't paying for bone.  It is a cheap cut, but if you slow cook it, it is good.  It looks kind of fatty, so I don't know, I always say there must be some kind chemical reaction with the sauce and sugar because when it is done it doesn't seem fatty at all.

I got the recipe I use from our paper a long time ago.  Where it would normally say the amount of servings, they just put "Makes.....a lot"  LOL, but it is true.

We will get a few meals out of it.  Tonight, I will take some and shred it with a fork and mix bbq sauce in it - that is what we Southerners call "barbecue".  For a party, you can serve that on a bun and not have to stand at a grill flipping burgers!

So, Snow Owl, your suggestion is right!  The bbq sauce is pretty much Tabasco and liquid smoke!
Yummy I loved pulled pork! Pour me a glass of sweet tea and I'll be right over!MMmmm what time's dinner!?Do you cook it in a crock pot?
This one is in the crockpot, because it is pretty big, but I have a smaller thingy that is called a 'slow cooker' (same principle, I guess, just not made of crockery?) that works, too.

The original recipe said eight hours on low, four hours on high.  Last time the one I had was pretty big, it wasn't done in four hours.  Use a meat thermometer.  Six hours on high seems to be the best, and that is easier to do on the weekends or a day like today when I am home.
Hmmm, sounds good. I wonder what they call Boston Butt up here in the north if it's a southern dish. I guess it's probably a picnic shoulder or something like that. Honestly, I think it's funny how the names of cuts of meat differ from state to state. When I visit my mom in Florida I cook for her and my dad. I remember trying to find a London Broil and it was impossible. It's...butt, I'm pretty sure LOL.  Don't tell my kids.  They had picnic shoulders there, too, so it isn't that.  And it isn't pork roast, but it does look like one.   This one was even 'branded' - Hormel.  Usually the grocer packages them, though. *drools*

Pulled pork....


*drools more*


Sweet tea.....




The south has taken me over!

Suzanne SHARE! LOL
i coming for dinner! Help - no worcestershire sauce!  What can I sub?  If I had been on here this am, I would have suggested just what you did. Sounds like just about the right mixture.
So, how was it?
[QUOTE=GrammaKathy]If I had been on here this am, I would have suggested just what you did. Sounds like just about the right mixture.
So, how was it?
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GrammaKathy, you don't how good that makes me feel!  Because I am not known as being good at such things LOL.

It was very good - good enough that, hmmmm, soy sauce and vinegar is much cheaper than worcestershire.......

But I'm still leaning towards some type of brown sugar/worcestershire fat busting magic, because there was some fat in this when it was done, and that doesn't usually happen.  I'll see how it goes with the frozen one and report back!

I agree you did good improvising, another one I do for the crockpot is 1/4 c soy sauce 1/2 c of packed brown sugar, 2tbls of ground garlic, if you have it  2tbls of of five chinese seasonings, if not add 1 tblsp of cinnamon, 1tblsp of ginger, 1tsp of nutmeg,  &1 tsp of cloves, all ground. Mix the indgredients together place a little oil on top of your meat, beef or pork, dump you sauce on top of that slow cook all day, at least 6-7hrs.  Yum Yum Yum.  You can substitute low sodium soy sauce for regular if you want.
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