Mumbo Sauce
Courtesy of G.E. on Yelp
I know my people are from Africa, how? I am a sauce lover, especially on barbecued meats and more. Black folk call Washington, D.C. Chocolate City because dating back to the early days of the Republic, there had been a black majority living there. Something that is distinctively D. C. is mumbo sauce. First appearing in the 1960s, it’s a red condiment allot like barbecue sauce that is tangier and sweeter. Washingtonians use it on fried foods like fried fish, fried chicken, and French fries. I could not find an exact recipe for it but a source I found said it's made from “roughly equal parts of sugar and vinegar, with a bit of ordinary ketchup” with some corn starch added as a thickener and boiled for unspecified time.
