|
Mason-Dixon Recipes #959697 added January 23, 2025 at 2:12pm
Restrictions: None
Potato Salad
At the station, he asks me if I have any aliases. And I was just being smart and said, "Yeah, they call me ... Tater Salad." Seventeen years later, I'm handcuffed to a bench with blood comin' out my nose, this cop comes up to me and says, "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?" You caught me! You caught the Tater!
— Ron White, American Comedian
All through history, potato salad recipes have been a good way to use leftover cooked potatoes. Potatoes had been popular throughout Europe since the 1500s when the Spanish brought them back from South America. There were different recipes for this vegetable as well as different preparation techniques according to local culinary practices.
An early potato salad recipe, dating back to 1597, calls for potatoes to be boiled in water or wine, or simmered with prunes, and then dressed with vinegar, oil and salt. Modern potato salad was once made with French dressing but later recipes, from the 1940s and onwards, usually recommended mayonnaise.
INGREDIENTS
5 medium potatoes*
1 hard-boiled egg, diced (optional)
1 rib celery, diced
1 cup mayonnaise
1 tsp prepared mustard
1 tsp white wine vinegar **
2 tsp sugar **
2 tsp parsley flakes
1/2 tsp salt
* Selection of the kind of potato is important. Idaho potatoes makes a mushier potato salad. Golden potatoes retain their structure. And red potatoes can be made with skin on.
** The addition of vinigar makes a creamier potato salad. But to cut the taste of vinigar, add sugar.
DIRECTIONS
Cook potatoes, drain and refrigerate. When cool, peel and cube. Mix ingredients for dressing in a separate bowl and then toss the potatoes.
For a nice alternative, try the Old Fashioned Cooked Dressing that was used before mayonnaise (found in this cookbook).
Makes 2 cups potato salad
|
© Copyright 2025 Eric Wharton (UN: ehwharton at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Eric Wharton has granted InkSpot.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work. |
