Barbeque Sauce (Arkansas)

Put some South in your mouth with this gourmet sweet barbecue sauce recipe. This is the famous SHACK barbeque sauce recipe from Little Rock, Arkansas. Shack barbeque sauce goes well as a marinate and/or sauce on any meat. The secret barbeque (BBQ) sauce recipe was copied by an employee, over 5,800 printed copies were mailed to 38 states and 14 foreign countries after he mentioned it on the radio, and since the Internet it has gone virtually everywhere. It is somewhat 'hot', adjustable to suit your tastes, but initially stick to the recipe', even though it appears to be excessive (pepper for instance). Do NOT judge 'heat', by sipping off a spoon from the pot, even if you were stingy with the Tabasco. Dunk a piece of bread into the sauce and sample that way. The amounts reflect the size most ingredients come in at the grocery store. As it stands it makes about a gallon or more. I see no reason it would not survive reducing, but you can always use it as gifts. 

Wet Ingredients:
72 oz ketchup (3-24 oz jars)
72 oz hot water (use the ketchup bottles)
4 cups distilled vinegar

Dry Ingredients:
4 oz chili powder
4 oz black pepper
4 oz garlic salt (not powder, there is no other added salt)
4 oz sugar
4 oz Tabasco sauce
8 oz yellow mustard

Mix the wet ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.

On high heat, put the wet ingredients in a big pot. Bring it to boil.

Put the dry ingredients together and add it to the pot when it begins to boil. Stir.

Turn down to a low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Stir often to make sure nothing sticks.

Store in air-tight glass jars.

Makes about 1 gallon.