St Elmo's Cocktail Sauce
Source of Recipe
Shunick
List of Ingredients
1 small hunk fresh horseradish -- coarsely grated
[you need 2 tablespoons of horseradish]
1/2 cup cider vinegar -- for soaking
The Sauce:
2 tablespoons vinegar soaked shaved horseradish -- drained
2 cups Bennett's Chili Sauce
2 squirt fresh lemon juice
4 lg. squirts fresh lime juice
16 jumbo steamed shrimp -- peeled and deveined -- leave tails on
lemon wedges -- as desired
Original Version:
2 tablespoons fresh horseradish -- coarsely grated
1/2 cup cider vinegar
2 cups Heinz ketchup
NOTE: The Original recipe just calls for the drained-vinegar soaked fresh horseradish to be added to Heinz Ketchup - that's all.
Recipe
Shave the horseradish and place in a covered container
along with the vinegar. Refrigerate overnight.
Drain the horseradish.
Mix two tablespoons of the horseradish with 2 cups of the chili sauce.
Add two squirts of fresh lemon juice and four large squirts of fresh lime juice.
Place four cooked shrimp in each serving vessel surround with lemon wedges and about 1/2 cup of the sauce for each serving.