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                          Irish's Crab Butter

Recipe By     : Larry Tepper AT&T Information Systems, Denver
Serving Size  : 0    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Appetizers

 Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
110      "g            butter
240      g             cream cheese
 60      ml            mayonnaise
150      g             crab meat
  1                    onion (medium to large, chopped fine)
         some          cocktail sauce
 30      ml            lemon juice
  2 1/2  ml            crushed garlic (or a pinch of instant garl
 15      ml            Worcestershire sauce

1.  Allow butter and cream cheese to soften before starting.

2.  Mix mayo, butter and cream cheese.  Do not use a blender, as the
mixture will get soupy.

3.  Add lemon juice, garlic, worcestershire sauce, pepper, etc. to taste.

4.  Mix in crab (or whatever) and onion.  Of the choices, I feel crab is
the best.

5.  Chill at least two hours, cover with cocktail sauce.  This is an
important part of the recipe.

Author's Notes:
   My first encounter with this dip came at a New Year's party a few years
ago.  I was standing by the munchies table trying not to embarrass myself
too much, when a woman came up to me and pointed out this dip.  She
explained to me that at a previous party she had lost control eating it and
got a spoon! It's incredibly rich, and requires a lot of will power not to
eat too much.

   I recommend Wakefield crab meat, Shrimp or Shrimp & Crab. I usually use
Crosse & Blackwell's cocktail sauce, but feel free to use any kind that you
trust. You can make your own simple cocktail sauce by mixing 3 parts catsup
to 1 part horseradish and adding tabasco, garlic, worcestershire sauce to
taste. Serve over Triscuits (they're nice and strong, to survive heavy
scooping) or veggies.  Irish is the friend from whom I got this recipe.

Difficulty    : easy.
Precision     : approximate measurement OK.



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Per serving: 12444 Calories; 1379g Fat (98% calories from fat); 63g
Protein; 15g Carbohydrate; 3801mg Cholesterol; 14423mg Sodium