Categories: Dips, Party, Usenet 
      Yield: 1 batch 
  
    1/2 c  Butter 
      1 c  Cream cheese 
    1/4 c  Mayonnaise 
      6 oz Crab meat 
      1 lg Onion, chopped fine 
           Cocktail sauce 
      2 tb Lemon juice 
    1/2 ts Garlic, crushed (or a 
           -pinch of instant garlic) 
      1 tb Worcestershire sauce 
  
  Allow butter and cream cheese to soften before starting.  Mix mayo, butter 
  and cream cheese. Do not use a blender, as the mixture will get soupy. Add 
  lemon juice, garlic, worcestershire sauce, pepper, etc. to taste. 
   
  Mix in crab (or whatever) and onion.  Of the choices, I feel crab is the 
  best. Chill at least two hours, cover with cocktail sauce. This is an 
  important part of the recipe. 
   
  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. 
   
  NOTES: 
   
  *  Incredible crab or shrimp dip -- 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. 
  Yield:  Serves 6 gluttons. 
   
  : Difficulty:  easy. 
  : Time:  5 minutes preparation, 2 hours cooling. 
  : Precision:  approximate measurement OK. 
   
  : Larry Tepper 
  : AT&T Information Systems, Denver 
  : lat@druil.UUCP 
   
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