Dips

Devil’s Dip

• 1oz butter
• 3tbs white flour
• ½ level tsp curry powder
• ½ pint of milk and vegetable stock
• ½ level tsp cayenne pepper
• 2tsp wine  vinegar

Make a white sauce and then add the other ingredients and allow to cool. My recipe from a wedding we catered for in the 1978, hence the quantity (which I have halved) and the addition of ¼pt cream. If the consistency needed adjusting I would now add creme fraiche. Allow to cool.

Garlic Dip

• 2tbs mayonnaise
• 2 -3 cloves of pressed garlic
• 1tbs crème fraiche
• Salt and pepper

Mix the ingredients together and season to taste.

Pimento Dip

• 4 oz cream cheese
• 1tbs crème fraiche
• Red and green peppers, finely chopped

Blend all the ingredients together and season to taste.

Simple Marie Rose Sauce

• 2tbs mayonnaise
• 1tbs tomato ketchup
• 1tbs dry sherry
• pinch of caster sugar

Blend all the ingredients together and season to taste.

Blue Cheese Dip

• 2tbs mayonnaise
• 1tbs crème fraiche
• 2 oz crumbled blue cheese
• seasoning

Blend all the ingredients together

Cucumber Dill Dip

• ¼ cucumber
• 2tbs crème fraiche
• 1 tsp dried dill
• Seasoning and a squeeze of lemon is optional, to give a sourer flavour.

Degorge the cucumber, grate finely onto a piece of kitchen towel and squeeze out the juice, add the crème fraiche and dried dill. Season to taste.