Homemade Honey Barbecue Sauce

This is my own recipe and the sauce is dark, with the ground cloves just adding a bit of spicy flavor. It is easy to make.  

Ingredients:

3/4 cup ketchup
2/3 cup honey (see text below)
3 teaspoons molasses (I use blackstrap, but use what you have)
1/4 cup brown sugar (light or dark)
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon seasoned salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon dried oregano

Combine ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes, whisking the sauce occasionally to keep it smooth. You may want to adjust the amount of honey, depending upon the tartness of the ketchup brand you use, so perhaps keep some of the honey in reserve until the sauce has cooked for awhile, then give it a taste, and add more, if needed, even using more than what I used to suit your own taste. I initially started with a half cup of honey, but the sauce was too tart, and I increased the amount of honey. 

A piece of chicken with honey barbecue sauce

WORD HISTORY:
Oregano-The ultimate origin of this word for the herb plant and its leaves is uncertain, although it possibly originated in Greek, as a compound of transliterated Greek "oros" (mountain) and "ganos" (brightness; thus, decorative), from the notion of the plant's (a type of marjoram) blossoms "brightening or decorating a mountainside." Anyway, Greek had "origanon," which was borrowed into Latin as "origanum," this was applied to marjoram, a part of the mint family. This form was used, seemingly sparingly, in English from about the 1300s. The Latin form also gave its Spanish offspring "orégano," and this later was used in the New World for various plants used for cooking and medicine. The Spanish word form provided a more widespread usage in the English of North America and of the Caribbean islands, which also was carried back to England in the latter part of the 1700s and, thus, altered the previous Latin form.