These Traditional Kentucky Derby Recipes Will Make Your Kentucky Derby Party a Success

Kentucky Derby Recipes

Early Times Mint Julep

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups water
• Sprigs of fresh mint
• Crushed ice
• Early Times Kentucky Whisky
• Silver Julep Cups

Prepare a simple syrup by boiling sugar and water together for five minutes. Cool and place in a covered container with six or eight sprigs of fresh mint, then refrigerate overnight. Make one julep at a time by filling a silver julep cup with crushed ice, adding one tablespoon mint syrup and two ounces of Early Times Kentucky Whisky. Stir rapidly with a spoon to frost the outside of the cup. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.

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•3 eggs, lightly beaten
•1 cup light corn syrup
•1/2 cup dark brown sugar
•1/4 teaspoon salt
•1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
•1 teaspoon vanilla
•3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted

•1 cup chopped pecans
•1 6 oz. pkg. chocolate chips
•1 tablespoon cup all-purpose flour
•1 tablespoon 100 proof Kentucky Bourbon (optional)
•9-inch, unbaked 1-crust pie shell

Combine the first 8 ingredients and mix well. Then blend pecans, chocolate chips, and flour and stir into the mixture. Add Bourbon if desired. Pour into unbaked pie crust. Bake in pre-heated oven 400 degrees F. for 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees F. and bake 40 minutes longer or until firm in center. Cool for at least 30 minutes before serving.

Top it with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

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• 1/2 cup freshly cooked crab meat, shredded
• 1 cup fresh shrimp, steamed and chopped
• 3 scallions, chopped
• 1/4 tsp. Tabasco sauce
• 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp. lemon juice
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 30 large cherry tomatoes
• Sprigs of fresh parsley

Combine seafood, scallions, Tabasco, Worcestershire, lemon juice and mayonnaise in a blender or food processor. Blend until smooth. Cut an X in the bottom of each tomato, cutting to within 1/2" of the stem end.

Carefully hollow out the tomatoes, draining well and discarding pulp. Spoon a crab mixture into each tomato. Top each with a sprig of fresh parsley. Chill and serve.

A traditional Kentucky favorite.

• 1 box powdered sugar
• 1/4 lb. melted butter
• 1/3 cup Bourbon Whiskey
• 1 cup whole pecans
• 4-5 chocolate squares
• 2 teaspoons paraffin

Mix sugar, butter and Bourbon together and make into balls. Chill overnight. Dip balls into melted chocolate and paraffin, adding whole pecan to the top of each candy before chocolate sets, or roll in powdered sugar.

In 1919 two girlfriends, Rebecca and Ruth, failed as teachers and decided to make candy for a living. During Prohibition, a ritzy hotel owner let them use his empty bar to make their candies. Smells of chocolate wafting into the hotel lobby brought dry guests into the bar for a different kind of treat.

The young women used all kinds of kookie publicity to get their candy noticed. Twice, marriage broke up the partnership, until Ruth took over the company for good just months before the Depression. This amazing woman constantly hung on throughthe tough times of the Depression and the sugar rationing of WWII. An offhand comment overheard at the Kentucky Derby led her to create her famous "Bourbon Balls."

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