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Melba's Jammin'

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(Steve Pope) wrote:

> A correspondent let me know that tomato sauce (as in canned Hunt's
> tomato sauce) is a better choice than ketchup for forming a cocktail
> sauce.
>
> Sounded sensible and I tried this with a crab cocktail yesterday.
> Other cocktail sauce ingredients were as usual (horseradish,
> Worcestershire sauce, tabasco, lemon juice). I will say the
> less ketchup-y, less sweet result might be a better match for the crab.
> It was however a little dull.
>
> Maybe next time I'll try some of each (say, 1/3 ketchup). There's
> at least a month of crab season to go.
>
> Do ya'll have any preferences on cocktail sauce?
>
> Steve

Nope; I am not loyal to a particular brand, buying either the cheapest
or a mid-price-range bottle. <shrug>

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
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