Recipes

[Sooner]

My mom used to make some great oven bbq chicken in the 1960's and 1970's and lost the recipe!  I would bet it came from Good Housekeeping or Ladies Home Journal or some magazine.

If you have a recipe like this that is vintage, would you please share it?  You whipped up a bbq sauce and I'm sure it was from common ingredients.  You baked the chicken in the oven a little while as I remember then poured the sauce over it.

Anyway, if you have such an heirloom recipe, I'd love to have it!  THANKS! 

[On It]

@Sooner I do not have it, and I had completely forgotten about it until this post. I can almost taste it; it was really good. I will be watching the responses hoping that the vintage one appears. I keep wondering if "Woody's Sauce" was involved.

[Zhills]

The Coca Cola, Ketchup BBQ sauce maybe?

[4kitties]

I have not tried it but there is a recipe for oven bbq chicken on Deep South Dish dot com

It is called Old School Oven Barbequed Chicken

Hope this helps!

[Scooby Doo]

[KatieB]

@Sooner   Do you remember whether or not the recipe used Campbell's Tomato Soup?  My mother made the best oven bbq'd chicken using Tomato Soup.  If it is that one I will look for the recipe.

[walker]

@Sooner ....this is definitely from late 60's or early 70's.  I remember sitting in a hospital waiting room with my mother while my father had surgery.  I was looking at magazines and saw this recipe...ripped it out and have been making it now for many years!!  Very good! I serve over rice or with potato salad in summer.   My hint.....put aluminum foil in baking dish...it makes clean-up much easier!  Also, I double sauce ingredients and use chicken breasts/thighs/drumsticks.   Recipe says bake at 375.  I bake at 350 for 1 hour..sometimes little longer.

This is original recipe....

OVEN BBQ-CHICKEN

1 (8oz) can tomato sauce

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup light or dark molasses

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons vinegar

2 tablespoons minced onion

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons dry mustard

1/4 teaspoon chili powder

dash of pepper

2 1/2-3 lb. Fryer chicken, cut up

In a saucepan, combine all ingredients except chicken; simmer 15-20 minutes.  Place chicken in a shallow baking pan; brush with the barbecue mixture.  Bake in a moderate oven (375)  until tender, about 1 hour.  Baste occasionally with additional barbecue mixture during baking.  Simmer remaining sauce 10 minutes more and serve with chicken.

[Kachina624]

@walker    I may try this recipe with a small pork roast in the slow cooker for some pulled pork.  I think it'll work fine.

[Sooner]

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@KatieB wrote:

@Sooner   Do you remember whether or not the recipe used Campbell's Tomato Soup?  My mother made the best oven bbq'd chicken using Tomato Soup.  If it is that one I will look for the recipe.

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Thanks! @KatieB  Great tip and if you liked it that is a good recommendation!

[Sooner]

@walker Oh that's a real possibility!  I will try these and promise to report back as I do.  And if anyone has a go at it, I would love to hear from you.  GREAT suggestions!