Hot Crab Dip

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:28:23 +0000

Hot Crab Dip

Author Notes: Victoria will have to weigh in on the origins of this recipe. She came to help prepare food and flowers for a large Christmas party. Her namesake granddaughter had Victoria’s own handwritten recipe with all the listed ingredients out ready to be measured and mixed. Across the room, I overheard Victoria asking said granddaughter for curry, lemon juice, then celery seed, then paprika and who knows what else. I asked HV what recipe she was working on to which she replied “hot crab dip”. I said, “those ingredients are not on the recipe card”. She said she adds them sometimes to brighten the recipe. That is why all of her food is so delicious, mine less so and why all of her recipes are really secrets.

Ingredients:

1 pound backfin crab – fresh
1 package cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons cream
3 tablespoons parsley chopped
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
3 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 boiled eggs, chopped finely. Optional – discard yellow.

Directions:

Gently pick through crab to remove any shells, trying to keep large chunks intact and set aside.
Mix all other ingredients. Gently fold in chunks of crab.
Gently heat over party food warmer or on stovetop. Serve with fresh sliced baguette rounds or crackers.
And don’t forget to add any of the secret ingredients to taste – curry, paprika, celery seed, lemon juice. And white pepper.

Cheese Straws

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:09:19 +0000

Cheese Straws

Author Notes: Recipe given to Victoria by her Auntie, Mary Capers Beddoes Barnes. I made this recipe when I was little and forgot the flour – the flour is really important. I also made it for my dad’s mother, Eleanor, who served them at the Christmas Eve party for Pop’s family. The recipe below is copied from Auntie’s typed recipe card given to my mom – she typed many of her recipes.

Cheese Straws Recipe

Ingredients:

1 pound sharp cheese (be sure to use sharp), grated
3 sticks butter or margarine, room temperature
4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon red pepper
1 ½ teaspoons salt

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Grate cheese and cream with butter.
Mix in pepper and salt.
Gradually work in flour. Auntie’s note: I beat cheese and butter with mixer, add first two cups flour, then work in rest by hand.
Use cookie press, using cutter NO 2 (star shape). Press out dough into strips on ungreased cookie sheets – can have several rows on one sheet.
Bake about 10 minutes.

Optional: Can be rolled and cut with biscuit cutter.

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Hot Crab Dip

Cheese Straws