Hi,
My name is Len and I have been lurking here for a couple of weeks, ever since I went online to see if I could find out what had happened to Woody's. I couldn't find it on any store shelf.

I made San Francisco Bill's SECOND Woody' recipe last night with a few modifications:
1. I used lemon juice from concentrate
2. I used Mc Cormick dry mustard
3. I only used 7 Tblsp of Colgin liquid smoke (I would have used 8 Tblsp, but I underestimated what I had remaining in the bottle.
4. I could not find any pure seedless tamarinds at my asian supermarket, but I did find two other products: tamarind paste and "Tamarin de concentrer", a sour soup base mix. I went with the soup base mix. It is brown and very sour. The 16 oz container has a picture of the tamarind plant on the front. I used 1 tblsp.

I cooked the mixture in my crock pot for about 8 hrs, then bottled it up and put it in the refrigerator.

Tonight I did a taste test on chicken thighs. Since I still have about a quarter jar left of the original Woody's, I cooked half with the old woody's and half with the new mixture.

Here are my reactions and comparisons:
The new mixture is about the same color, brushes on about the same, looked very similar after the thighs were cooked.
The new mixture needs A Lot more smoke flavor, I would say at least 4 or 5 more Tblsp.
I think the canola oil could be reduced to 3/4 cup from 1 cup.
The new mixture had a slight tomato flavor, but I might have been tasting that because of the weaker smoke flavor.
The new mixture would be a very good substitute for the original Woody's.

My wife thought the new mixture, along with needing more smoke flavor, also needed more of the other spices, like garlic powder, onion powder and worcestershire sauce. She also said she thought it needed a little salt, but I really couldnt tell it was less salty then the original.


This is kind of fun,
Len