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Gram's Potato Salad Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Celery, green pepper, onions, hard-boiled eggs,Salt & pepper, Miracle Whip (never mayonnaise) and some sugar

The above is Mom's original recipe. She never gave you precise measurements for most things she made—a little of this, a little of that till you like the taste. But below are approximations for the ingredients.


  • 8 medium potatoes, cooked and diced

  • 1 1⁄2 c Miracle Whip

  • 2 TBS sugar

  • 1 TBS yellow mustard

  • 1 tsp salt

  • 1⁄2 tsp pepper

  • 2 celery ribs, finely diced

  • 1 c onion, grated

  • 3-4 hard-boiled eggs, chopped

  • paprika
Directions:
Directions:
Potatoes, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch chunks. Cover potatoes with salted water in sauce pan; bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and cool slightly. Place in large bowl.

  1. Sprinkle sugar on potatoes. Mix Miracle Whip and mustard in another bowl

  2. Add to potatoes.

  3. Add celery, onions salt and pepper and mix well.

  4. Stir in eggs.

  5. Sprinkle a little paprika on top.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Can be served at room temperature or chilled. Gram's Potato Salad was the BEST. It was never bland tasting and had just enough "zing" that it was loved by all.

 

 

 

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