Fun With Soppy

The Soppy, a delicious meat sauce, has been in my family for generations.  Soppy is great on steaks, chicken, fish, turkey and even pheasant. 

The Soppy ingredients are a well kept Bailey family secret.  My great-great grandfather on my mother’s side, William Rutledge Bailey, born November 10, 1846 in Knox County, Ohio, first threw down the Soppy on a massive hog he was cooking over a freakishly large fire pit at his prairie homestead in Pratt Kansas.  William slathered the hog with the Soppy and his wife Lucy and the Bailey children William, Whitney (my great grandfather) Henry, Oliver, Florella and Judson feasted on the flavorly enhanced meat. 

Whitney never forgot the Soppy ways.  Whitney grew to be a wheat farmer.  Pioneer settlers had a way of making play out of hard work.  One of the big social events of the year in Saratoga Township, Pratt County, was the time of butchering when several families helped each other as they went from farm to farm to work.  In the coldest part of the winter, neighbors gathered and several hogs were butchered, enough to supply the year’s meat.  Many of them were specialists in some phase of the work and Whit Bailey was one of the best butchers in the area and much in demand. 

With the Soppy powers on his side, he was bound to be a legend. 

Demonstrated here is Soppy use while grilling beefy kabobs and bratwurst.  Soppy glaze is still used for special occasions in my family.  Soppy. Soppy!  SOPPY!  

I will never tell the recipe.