Recipe for cooking Biloxi Butter

Starters and Snacks :: Savoy Dips and Spreads

Biloxi Butter

This is famous in Biloxi, Mississippi.

1/2 lb. sm. fresh shrimp, cooked, or
    2 cans sm. shrimp
3 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 C. butter or butter replacement
2 tsp. horseradish
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
Liquid pepper sauce, to taste (about
    1/8 tsp. to start, more if you like)

Bring butter or butter replacement to room temperature. Drain shrimp and put in blender with lemon juice. Add butter or butter replacement, horseradish, salt, nutmeg and liquid pepper and blend well at slow speed. Press into a mold and chill.

Serve with Melba toast or other bland dry crackers as an appetizer spread.