Carolina Barbecue

a sauceGolding Farms Foods

also: Golding Farms · Golding Blends

Golding Farms on the retail label; Golding Blends on the company's own site.

A Winston-Salem sauce manufacturer, the second of that city's two, and one whose output mostly reaches a table under someone else's name. It sells a retail line under the Golding Farms label — the Honey Mustard dipping sauce reads distilled vinegar, canola oil, sugar, honey, water, mustard seed, at 3.5 grams of sugar to the tablespoon — and blends and packs sauces for brands, food service and industrial customers.

The story Cited · web-goldingblends-about

The company says it has been bringing flavor forward since 1972 and describes fifty years of blending for brand, food service and industrial buyers from Winston-Salem, with an in-house development team of a chef, scientists and technicians.

Inference — Winston-Salem holds both ends of the bottled-sauce trade. T.W. Garner makes Texas Pete under its own name and sells it in every grocery in the state; Golding blends and packs, and the name on the bottle is often a customer's. Between them the city puts more sauce in circulation than any pit town, which is a fact about the sauce shelf rather than about the pits. No Golding Farms barbecue sauce label turned up on 16 September 2026, so the retail reading on this page is of the honey mustard dipping sauce, which the label does not call a barbecue sauce.

Facts

basemustard
stylesLexington-style barbecue
regionThe North Carolina Piedmont, North Carolina
linksGolding Blends — About · USDA FoodData Central 1850366
confidencemedium · needs verification · updated 2026-09-16

On the label

what was readbottle · Golding Farms Foods, Winston-Salem, NC
vinegar#1 on the label
tomato—
mustard#6 on the label
sugar#3 on the label
sugar per tablespoon3.5 g (a tablespoon of table sugar is about 12.6 g)
sodium per tablespoon70 mg
the label, in orderDISTILLED VINEGAR, CANOLA OIL, SUGAR, HONEY, WATER, MUSTARD SEED, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, DRIED ONION, YEAST EXTRACT, SPICES, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, YELLOW 5, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVORS

Read from this page, 2026-09-16. The Honey Mustard dipping sauce, not a barbecue sauce: the label does not use the word. USDA FoodData Central record 1850366, GTIN 073209001086, 2 Tbsp (30 g) serving. Carried because the company is one of North Carolina's two sauce manufacturers and no Golding Farms barbecue sauce label was found on 2026-09-16. Every bottle we have read is on the sauce page.

Recipes you may use

Public-domain cookbooks are printed here in full, spelling and all. Where a recipe is still in copyright, the page gives the ingredients — a list of what goes in is a fact — and links to the rest.

Sauce for Barbecues (receipt 335)

Mrs. A. P. Hill · Mrs. Hill's New Cook-Book · 1867 · p. 171 · source · Public domain
Melt half a pound of butter; stir into it a large tablespoonful of mustard, half a teaspoonful of red pepper, one of black, salt to taste; add vinegar until the sauce has a strong acid taste. The quantity of vinegar will depend upon the strength of it. As soon as the meat becomes hot, begin to baste, and continue basting frequently until it is done; pour over the meat any sauce that remains.

Mustard, vinegar, butter and pepper, 1867: the family a honey-mustard dipping sauce belongs to. The maker's own formula is not published; these are free-to-use recipes of the same family, for a cook who wants to make a jar.

Savory Mustard Sauce

Wikibooks Cookbook · read 16 September 2026 · source · CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Heat olive oil in a large slope-sided skillet over medium high heat. Add shallot and sauté until golden. 2. Meanwhile, combine broth and starch. Set aside. 3. Once shallot has cooked, add mustard, salt, and pepper to pan. Decrease heat to medium low heat. 4. Once sauce heats to just below a simmer, add broth mixture. Cook, whisking continuously, until sauce thickens slightly. 5. Whisk in butter 1 tbsp at a time, waiting for the one before it to fully melt before adding another. 6. Once all butter has been used, remove sauce from heat. 7. Serve with a steak or some pork tenderloin, or use as a grilling baste.

Barbecue Sauce (Sweet)

Wikibooks Cookbook · read 16 September 2026 · source · CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Combine all ingredients together and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 10 to 15 minutes, until it thickens slightly. 2. Arrange chicken pieces or pork chops in a greased baking dish. 3. Pour half of sauce over and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 to 40 minutes. 4. Pour remaining sauce over before serving.

Its kin

saucesTexas Petethe other Winston-Salem sauce house, three miles away, whose bottle carries its own name.saucesmustard-based barbecue saucethe South Carolina sauce its honey mustard shares a first ingredient order with, and none of the history.stylesLexington-style barbecuethe style of the Piedmont it manufactures in, whose pits mix their own dip and buy no bottles.

Sources

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