Nancy Young > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> Nancy Young > wrote:

>>> That recipe sounds more like tartar sauce to me. Not that there's
>>> anything wrong with that, but it doesn't sound like what I think
>>> of as cocktail sauce.

>> Doesn't tartar sauce have cream of tartar in it?

>I really don't think so but I imagine someone somewhere
>includes it. It's still a mayonnaise-y type of sauce compared
>to the cocktail sauce I'm used to.

Right. From looking at some recipes, it seems to me the flavor
I associate with "Tartar sauce" is probably chopped/blended pickles/capers.
Without that, I'd go with calling it Russian dressing.


Steve