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"The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe."--John Gould, Monstrous Depravity, 1963

Granny's Homemade Potato Salad Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
10 lb. russet potato
2 packages celery
2 medium sweet yellow onions
8-9 large, hard-boiled eggs
2 30 oz jars of Hellmann's mayo
1 16 oz jar of sweet gherkin pickles
Mustard
Sugar
Salt
Pepper
Directions:
Directions:
Rinse potatoes, then boil whole, about an hour; ready when able to pierce with fork; drain water and let cool, about 40 minutes
While potatoes are boiling/cooling prepare everything else.
Hard boil eggs; once cooled cut in half, then in thirds
Cut gherkins lengthwise and coarsely chop (bigger than celery); save juice
Rinse and dry celery, then slice lengthwise and chop
Finely chop onion; (smaller pieces than celery)
Once potatoes are cooled, crush with hands into very large bowl
Add celery, onion, pickles; mix
Add one jar of mayo
Add mustard, salt and pepper to taste (less pepper than salt); mix
Add additional mayo as needed to desired consistency
Add sugar to taste (no more than 1/4 cup)
Add 1/4 pickle juice and eggs; mix
Best made the day before, or at least 4 hours before consumption
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
30
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
2

 

 

 

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