Course: Salad
Tags: vegetarian

Potato Salad

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2022-08-19: First made (scaled to about ⅓) and it was a hit.

Stock photo for now, we ate it before we could take a pic.

If you have lovage, substitute 4 leafs of it for the celery and parsley.

Source

Adapted from Better Homes & Gardens All-time Favourite Salad Recipes (Meredith, 1978). Changes: omitted the pickle relish, substituted lovage leafs for the celery, added peas and lots of egg. yummy.

Ingredients

6eggs
3 lbpotatoes
1 tblsugar
2 tspflour
1½ tspdry mustard
salt
3egg yolks
¾ cmilk
¼ cvinegar
3 tblbutter or margarine
½ cfrozen peas
1 c choppedcelery
4, slicedgreen onion
pepper
parsley
paprika

Bust Out

big saucepan
microwavable bowl
large bowl

Steps

    Boil
  1. Boil eggs and potatoes in a covered big saucepan. Fish out eggs after 10 minutes of boiling, cook potatoes 25-30 minutes, until tender.
  2. Dressing
  3. In a microwavable bowl whisk sugar, flour, dry mustard, and ¾ tsp salt. Whisk in egg yolks and milk.
  4. Microwave 1 minute, whisk, then alternate 30 seconds of microwave and whisk until thickened. Do not boil.
  5. Whisk in vinegar and butter or margarine.
  6. Assemble
  7. Drain potatoes, cool until you can handle them, peel and cut into rough ¾" chunks into a large bowl.
  8. Chop 3 of the hardboiled eggs into big chunks and add to bowl.
  9. Add frozen peas, celery, green onion, 1½ tsp salt, and ⅛ tsp pepper.
  10. Add the dressing and gently fold so as to not mash the potatoes & eggs.
  11. Cover with egg slices, parsley, and paprika
  12. Chill.