Ken McEwen's Curry/Plum Appetizer

from the Dark Shadows Celebrity Cookbook

Ken McEwen, Associate Producer of Dark Shadows, has come up with another practical yet elegant recipe that continues to make the Dark Shadows Celebrity Cookbook interesting and peppered with the unusual.  Here is his Curry/Plum Appetizer. Kicked up a notch from the red pepper jelly and cream cheese that we all know and love, this is very exotic with the cream cheese having been seasoned with curry powder, and then smothered with a combination of chutney and damson plum preserve.  But this is not just any chutney.  Mr. McEwen specifies Raffeto Chestnut Chutney.  The Rafetto company has been in business since the nineteenth century as manufacturers and purveyors of gourmet foods, but with so many specialty food items on the market you have to search for their products.  Also, it appears that they no longer make the chestnut chutney but have replaced it with what they call Chut-Nut Colonial Chutney which includes black walnuts among the many other ingredients in this intriguing blend of fruits, vegetables, and spices.  Combined with the damson plum preserve this makes a fabulous cloak for a ball of curry flavored cream cheese.  Topped with chopped walnuts and served with Triscuts, as the recipe calls for, this is at once a sweet, savory, salty, crunchy, tangy, creamy, spicy, bite of...well you try it and see.  Serve it for a party, or maybe just have it for snacks with drinks while you're watching some of your favorite Dark Shadows episodes.