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My Basic Potato Salad Recipe

5 to 6 med. potatoes
2 eggs

Put all in a pot, cover with water and boil 45 min. While the potatoes are boiling, chop some onion, celery or whatever you want in it, and put in a large bowl.

After boiling, carefully drain most of the hot water out, and add cold tap water to the pot and let the potatoes and eggs cool. In 10 minutes, add more cold water, take the eggs out, crack the shells of the eggs and peel them. Place them in a bowl.

Using a paring knife, peel the potatoes. The skins should slip right off. After they are all peeled, begin dicing the potatoes to the desired size. (I like a smaller bite size pieces)

Cut the eggs up in a bowl and mash them with a fork. Add the eggs to the diced potatoes. Add about a cup mayonnaise and carefully stir it all up. Add more mayonnaise if needed, or add a little milk to make it creamier.

Optional Ingredients:

Use salad dressing instead.
1/2 sm. onion chopped
2 stalks of celery sliced in small pieces
1/2 green pepper chopped
1/4 cup relish
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon mustard
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon celery seed

Chill several hours or overnight. So you see, there is a variety of different ingredients you can add, it pretty much depends on what part of the country you are from.

Hot German Potato Salad

Peel and cook 4 medium potatoes, and when cooled cut in slices or squares.

In a frying pan put 4 slices of bacon cut in small pieces
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
2 Tbsp oil or margarine

Brown until cooked and put aside and into the juice add:

2 Tbsp flour
1/4 cup cider vinegar
2 Tbsp brown sugar
1/4 tsp celery seed
salt and pepper to taste.

If this is too thick, add a little water and stir in the bacon and onion mix, and the potatoes heat through stirring untill hot. (recipe from 1973)

Grandma's Potato Salad

5 to 6 med. potatoes
2 eggs

Put all in a pot, cover with water and boil 45 min. While the potatoes are boiling, chop some onion, celery or whatever you want in it, and put in a large bowl.

In a bowl add
2 tsp. mustard
3 Tblsp. mayo
1 Tblsp. vinegar
2 tsp. sugar
1/4 cup milk
a little celery seed

Mix and add to potatoes (recipe from 1982)

Potato and Pea Salad

2 cups boiled diced potatoes
1 cup peas
1/2 cup French Dressing
Lettuce, Mayo

Pour 2/3 of the French Dressing over the potatoes and the other 1/3 over the peas. Chill both in fridge 1 hr. Then combine them and arrange on lettuce leaves. Garnish with mayo. (recipe from 1971)

Potato Salad with Apples

Cook and cubed 3 cups potatoes cold
4 hard boiled eggs chopped and save a few slices for the top
1 small onion chopped or 4 green onions chopped
1/2 cup chopped celery
2 apples peeled and diced
6 radishes sliced (optional)
1/2 pepper chopped (optional)
1/2 cup chopped cucumber (optional)
chopped chives and mint(optional)

In a small bowl mix up 1 cup salad dressing
1/4 cup milk
1 Tbsp mustard and Salt and pepper
Mix all together and mix with the veggies lay some egg slices on the top and sprinkle Paprika over the top

My Potato Salad with Beets (Vinagrette)

Dice cold boiled potatoes in one-half inch cubes. Dice cooked, cooled beets, and add to potatoes. Chop a green onion and add. Add four tablespoons oil and mix thoroughly; then add two tablespoons wine vinegar. Add a little sugar to taste. Chop 2 dill pickles and add. Finely cut a dill sprig, and add. Chill and serve.

Russian Salad

Mix one cup each cold cooked carrot cubes and potato cubes, one cup cold cooked peas, and one cup cold cooked beans, and marinate with French Dressing. Arrange on lettuce leaves in four sections, and cover each section with Mayonnaise Dressing.

Garnish two sections with small pieces of smoked salmon, one section with finely chopped whites of “hard boiled” eggs, and one section with yolks of “hard-boiled” eggs forced through a strainer. Put small sprigs of parsley or shrimps in lines dividing sections.

Potato Salad for a Crowd

12-14 potatoes, boiled and diced
12 eggs, chopped
1 cup sour cream
1 pint Hellman's (only) mayonnaise
1/4 cup onions, chopped
1 tbsp mustard
2 tbsp vinegar
2 tbsp sugar
Salt and pepper

Mix all ingredients together. Set a few hours before serving.