Curt's Barbecue

10/21/2015

06/29/2015

BBQ and Beer? Oh Yeah!!

02/01/2015

Read this well written article about Smokey Denmark and Pit Master Bill http://texasbrewandbarbecue.com/2015/01/28/smokey-denmarks-smokey-food-truck/

Smokey Denmark's Smokey Food Truck is an extension to the food processing center next door. Find out more on menu options and what to expect.

05/18/2014

Another GREAT photo from my personal collection! "Johnson City, TX. Dec. 27--Good Eating--Lynda Bird Johnson, 19- year old daughter of President and Mrs. Johnson chomps into a barbecue rib at a cookout on the LBJ Ranch near Johnson City today. President Johnson held the barbecue for members of the press and visitors to the ranch including cabinet members Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman. (AP Wirephoto)

05/14/2014

Old school chuck wagon beans, sausage and black coffee around the fire!!

05/11/2014

GREAT HALL! Built in 1870!! Read more about this amazing Hall. Great things are in store, and Curt's Barbecue is PROUD to be a part of it!!

Twin Sisters Hall Looks to Foster in New Era -- By Steve Dean. Twin Sisters Dance Hall is perhaps the oldest still existing and functioning dance hall in Texas. Despite the well-known and long standing claim to that title made by Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, which dates from 1878, there is evidence…

05/07/2014

IT"S here folks! Curt's Austin Texas Barbecue Sauce is out of the gate and ready to ride! This is Curtis Dumas Sr.'s 60 plus year old recipe, that is part of the Dumas family heritage. I recall, as a kid, helping him make this sauce, and helping him stoke the fire on his pit. This is the same sauce enjoyed by 100's of customers each week, through my BBQ business, Curt's Barbecue! Please contact me either here on Facebook or at [email protected] for all ordering information.

What makes this sauce so special? I'm glad you asked! Next time you are at the store look around and take a peek at some of the sauce labels sitting on the shelf. Look for some of the "No-No's" on the ingredients label, the ingredients that really do not belong in BBQ sauce: Ketchup, food coloring, water, fructose sugar, and liquid smoke. Most bottled sauces today carry these ingredients. These are fillers and short cuts and actually all you're getting is flavored ketchup. A true old time sauce is a reduction sauce containing such things as molasses, chiles, coffee, natural brown sugar, select spices, plus other natural ingredients that are reduced and simmered a long period of time over heat. Your finished product is a thick dark, shiny, fragrant sauce that comes together for the perfect match for all types of red meats, lamb, cabrito, pork and chicken. My grand dad used to say you knew your sauce had simmered long enough when it's color turned the same rich brown color as your saddle. These were the original Texas BBQ sauces, not the red ketchup based bottled sauces seen on the grocery store shelves today. A good prepared sauce, although costing more, makes a big difference in the success of your grilling and pit smoking.

I've used my Grand dad's recipe and have searched to find a company that would use the precise ingredients to duplicate his sauce. Almost all of the companies I spoke to wanted to change the formula with short cuts, which I refused to do.....the finished product is something that I think would make my granddad proud. Does it cost more than most other sauces?, yes it does, because the ingredients and process is strictly old school with no short cuts.

This sauce is different in appearance, taste and didn't come about in some food chemists kitchen. This is a very old Texas recipe that has proven it's self over and over by it's use and demand.

Please contact me either here on Facebook or at [email protected] for all ordering information.

04/17/2014

Another great photo from our personal archives! "A slab of barbecue ribs was inspected yesterday by Orville Freeman, Secretary Of Agriculture, and President Johnson. Walter Jetton, barbecue master, is handling the ribs. The President and Mrs. Johnson held the Barbecue for members of the press and visitors to the LBJ Ranch." Walter Jetton, 1906-1968, owned and operated Jetton's catering business spanned nearly four decades as he dispensed barbecued and charcoal broiled Texas beef around the country. It is said he served more than 1.5 million people a year.
Fort Worth was his base of operations from the beginning. A longtime friend of President Johnson, he appeared from time to time at the LBJ Ranch, serving barbecue and beans to the great and near great.Jetton was standing by in Austin in November, 1963, to serve President Kennedy at a $100-plate dinner when he heard of the assassination earlier that day in Dallas. Jetton's fare got the national treatment later when he catered a ranch meeting between Johnson and German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Newsmen from around the world labeled it the "Spareribs Summit Meeting." He got his first big publicity in 1951, when he catered the Texas State Society's annual picnic in Washington.
Resplendent in Western gear, the jolly, rotund Texan Texan caught the fancy of some of the Washington press. It led to national magazine spreads and network television appearances.

04/12/2014

Pork butt coming off the pit soon! Too bad Facebook doesn't have a Smell-o-Vision feature!!

04/11/2014

That's right! Our fresh shipment of "Curt's Barbecue Austin Texas Barbecue Sauce" should arrive here by 04/14 - 04/15!!! Stay tuned here at Curt's barbecue's page, and I'll advise you on cost and shipping. Remember: This sauce has NO ketchup in it at all!! We use real molasses, & fresh spices, the bottled sauce uses our exact sauce recipe which originated from my grandfather, Curtis Dumas Sr. Curt's is an ""old school" sauce using a 60++ years recipe!

04/08/2014

That's right! Curt's Barbecue will at Twin Sisters Dancehall with a KILLER menu on Apr. 13. What more can ya want..? Great BBQ? Great HISTORIC dance hall? Great music? Yep, this event is gonna have it all! See ya there!!

04/03/2014

Fred H. Klenck at his big brick pit in Evansville Indiana, early 1950's? Picture taken from my personal archive of old black and white press photos from another era.