Barbecue sauce

So this one was in Consuming passions, yet I don't feel I can call it Uncle buns barbecue sauce as I had to leave some ingredients out! Over here in ole Blighty I have several times heard of liquid smoke but never seen it anywhere!

If anyone can give me more details on this stuff please let me know? Any how, I used smoked hot paprika hoping that it would give me that smokey taste and I also used passata instead of prepared tomato sauce.

T he story of Uncle Bun by the way is kinda tragic, he falls in love, marries a unfaithful woman, goes mad and he's barbecue place shuts down. He's recipe for barbecue sauce though is rescued from a toilet wall and here's my take on it...

Barbecue Sauce

• over a medium flame fry
• 1 onion until translucent, then add
• 2 cloves of garlic
• set aside
• now over a low flame stir together until the sugar dissolves
• 1 packet of passata
• 1 cup ketchup
• 2 tblsp brown sugar
• now add
• 1 tblsp smokes paprika
• 1\4 tsp chili powder
• 1 1\2 tsp dry mustard
• 2 tblsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1\4 cup cider vinegar
• 1 1\2 tblsp lemon juice
• 1\2 cup beef stock
• salt\ pepper bring to the boil and simmer for an hour or so

this doesn't taste anything like commercial sauce, being more tomatoey. It's damn fine on the side though.