The origins of Scott’s family barbecue sauce trace back to 1917, when Adam Scott entered the barbecue business in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Over a three-year period, he developed a unique recipe for a sugar-free, fat-free barbecue sauce, which remains a closely guarded secret, passed down through the Scott family. Adam, who served as a local minister, claimed that the precise ingredients were revealed to him in a dream.
This original sauce recipe was a staple at Scott’s barbecue for nearly three decades until Adam Scott’s son, A. Martel Scott, Sr., enhanced the sugar-free blend before securing a patent for the sauce in 1946.
