re: Shrimp Freddy (photos)

Comeback.

I've posted it here before, but I don't know where.

The original recipe is Mom's - probably from a waitress at the Cedar Inn beside Battlefield Park, when that area wasn't a War Zone. Measurements are approximate and depend on what you plan on using the dressing for, how pink or red you want the finished product to be and what you have.

Mayonaise - old style used Blueplate - now Hellman's
Ketchup or better with chili sauce
Yellow Mustard - just a touch
Worcestershire sauce - about equal to mustard
Garlic powder - enough to taste and no more
Lemon juice - maybe 2X amount of mustard
salt and pepper to taste

If you want, add Paprica. If using as shrimp sauce for boiled shrimp, add horseradish to taste and maybe 1.5 times ketchup or chili sauce to get it darker red. If using for salad, add less ketchup or chili sauce to achieve more of a pink color. No Horseradish for salad dressing.

I make mine by experience and never measure anything. Start small and by the time you adjust, you will have lots of dressing in the bowl.

IMO, there is nothing better alongside boiled shrimp than this stuff, but that is how I grew up.
If you are at my table when boiled shrimp are served, there will be two bowls of this on the table - one darker red with horseradish for the shrimp and one lighter pink with no horseradish for the salad or lettuce wedge.

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Best memory was Dad taking me with him to the classic downtown lunch spots to meet the old politicians. Primo's, the Elite, and... ????

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I remember when there was a Primo's downtown and two Krystal white and chrome burger places between the train depot and the Old Capitol - one in the block where the Federal building in now and one two blocks below the old Capitol building. I keep wanting to say there were three, but that isn't correct. There was a Primos downtown, One a block or two east of Calvary Baptist church - a few blocks east of the Zoo. A Primos a block south of the old Baptist Hospital, Primos Northgate and toward the end of their Jackson experience a Primos on Ellis Avenue. A few years later, only the one on Lakeland drive was left.

In the 1950s there were some excellent Beer Joints in Jackson and a strong group of Greek heritage restaurants (Primos, Denneries, Elite, Mayflower and a few others downtown. I can't remember the one that is still a block north of the planetarium on Lamar? There were a couple on South State Street in the general area of Hal and Mal's too - between there and Fowler Buick. In those days, the Cherokee Inn on North State was "way out of town".