James Tanner's classic prawn cocktail has extra sweetness and crunch from crisp apple, plus an easy brandy-spiked marie-rose sauce. For the marie-rose sauce, mix the mayonnaise, ketchup ...

cooked prawns (or shrimp) served in a creamy, tangy sauce, often on a bed of lettuce. The sauce, known as Marie Rose or cocktail sauce, is usually a mix of mayonnaise, ketchup, Worcestershire ...

Done right, a prawn cocktail is a beautiful Christmas starter ... in half and place in ice-cold water to crisp it up. For the sauce, mix all the sauce ingredients together.

As a child I certainly didn’t see prawn cocktail as a dish to sneer at. We had it on holidays and at Christmas, spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting the Marie Rose sauce, proffering ...