Shrimp Cocktail

Ingredients

• ³⁄₄ cup ketchup
• 3 tbsp. drained prepared horseradish
• 2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
• 2 tsp. worcestershire sauce
• 8-10 drops Tabasco
• Pinch of salt
• 2 cups white wine
• 1 tbsp. black peppercorns
• 6 sprigs fresh thyme
• 1 small bunch flat-leaf parsley
• 1 sliced yellow onion
• 1 chopped rib celery
• 1 dried bay leaf
• 16 jumbo shell-on shrimp (about 1 pound)

Instructions

1. For the sauce, put ketchup, horseradish, lemon juice, worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, and a pinch of salt into a medium bowl and stir well. Cover and refrigerate.
2. Put wine, black peppercorns, thyme, parsley, onions, celery, bay leaf, and 2 quarts water into a large pot. Season the liquid generously with salt and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 30 minutes.
3. Add shrimp, and cook, stirring occasionally, until just cooked through, 2–3 minutes. Drain shrimp and transfer to a sheet pan and spread into a single layer; let cool to room temperature. Refrigerate shrimp until completely chilled, then peel them. Divide cocktail sauce between 4 cocktail glasses and perch 4 shrimp along the rim of each glass.