Where 's the horseradish in it?
Haven't found good cocktail sauce in a long time now.
Everything they claim is cocktail sauce is more like pancake syrup .
No wonder everyone is coming down with sugar problems.

You can buy pickled ground horseradish and mix it in for better zip in your cocktail sauce. I love horseradish, even the wasabi, that clears out your sinuses.

I use Woeber's Horseradish Sauce on many of my sandwiches. It's made about 20 miles from here in Springfield, Ohio.

https://buy.woebermustard.com/products/Horseradish-Sauce-%252d-16oz..html

Keith

I grow and make my own , just don't understand the cocktail sauce being sweet garbage.
Haven't been to Red Lobster in a couple years, but didn't get the shrimp cocktail either.
Before that used to get it all the time.
I like the kick and how it clears out the sinuses .

I make my own cocktail sauce. If gets a healthy dollop of horseradish plus a dash or two of tabasco.

Beaver,,,,,,,,,,,,They have full strength and deli,,,,,,,the bomb...
I would get hay fever after loading in the old days.
2 tablespoon was my cure,,,,, Doctors figure white crosses were better,,,,..... We didn't mind,,,

Ohio Wolverine, what's your recipe for cocktail sauce. I've never made it before and would like to.

We are canning peppers tonight, snackers, green and banana. I have 4 pecks of snackers, half a peck of greens and just under a peck of banana peppers I just picked 30 minutes ago.

Keith

No recipe really, just catsup and good strong horseradish.
The more horseradish the better.
I make it when I have the horseradish , but out of what I make right now.
Only two times a year , just before Thanksgiving , and just before Easter.
Just horse radish cleaned and ground in a meat grinder , then blended , with just a little water ,wait until the fumes gags you and burns your eyes, and add vinegar to keep it fresher, then bottle in baby food size jars and freeze .
Doesn't last long just jarred up unless frozen, loses it's strength.
Store bought is never as good as homemade.

They sell cocktail sauce? And people buy it?

Used to buy it some time ago, but not any more, it's not good at all.
Guess I'll just wait till I grind more horseradish , to make some.

Diane has been making cocktail sauce like that with Heinz Ketchup and pickled, ground horseradish.

I have a friend who has a huge patch of horseradish, his mom probably planted in the sixties, that he does nothing with. I have 1 1/2 bushels of Roma tomatoes, plus whatever I can pick out of the garden. I may try some experimenting.

Keith

Cocktail sauce isn't to far off a good bloody mary mix.

Ketchup
Worchestershire
Black Pepper
Tabasco
Horseradish
Lemon Juice

Sounds tasty particularly the garlic.

If ya like it spicy, tough to beat this one …. LOTS of horseradish!

Here is our cocktail sauce recipe:

Heinz Ketchup
Good fresh horseradish
Juice of a lemon
Lea & Perkins Worcestershire Sauce

Mix ketchup and horseradish, taste add more horseradish if needed. Add a little lemon, taste maybe add more. Same for the Worcestershire, add a little, taste, maybe add more.

Yep. St Elmo. The king or cocktail sauce.

The jarred cocktail sauce on the shelves at most groceries is garbage for the most part IMO. But a few chains still carry their own line of fresh refrigerated cocktail and most have both a milder and spicier version that are pretty good. And you can always add more horseradish to add more bite to it. The Kroger brand was not bad before they closed up shop here and most of those stores became Harris Teeters. Their brand of fresh cocktail is not bad either IMO. I am sure there are probably other chains with decent offerings of fresh cocktail as well.

This is the recipe I use: 2c ketchup; 2tsp worchestershire ( I also like Lea & Perrins); 1Tbl lemon juice; 2Tbl ground horseradish; I add a dash of garlic powder that the original recipe didn't call for. This makes about a pint, sometimes I sneak in a little more horseradish.

That looks like a wonderful recipe . Thank you for sharing this, Tatiana.

My mom made a great cocktail sauce for eating crab or shrimp. She bought Heinz "Chili Sauce" not the Heinz "Cocktail sauce", then added horseradish and fresh lemon juice. I still make the same thing and love it. Not too sweet and you can adjust the horseradish depending on how you like it. My sister still sends the chili sauce to me as they don't sell it here.

Pete

Hoffman house the major maker of it folded

I did see someone seems to have bought the name and was making it again


Ketchup is mostly sugar

if you mix a cup of Heinz 57 and 2 tablespoons of prepared horseradish you have a decent cocktail sauce if you like more horseradish add more to taste , you can get just what you like.