Potato Salad

Ingredients

• Three eggs (beaten)
• one cup sour cream
• one teaspoonful salt
• one teaspoonful of mustard
• one-half teaspoonful of red pepper
• one-half cup of sugar
• butter size of an egg
• one pint of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Pare and slice cold boiled potatoes and onion.

2. 2

   Mix on a salad dish.

3. 3

   For dressing, mix beaten eggs, sour cream, salt, mustard, red pepper, sugar, and butter.

4. 4

   Heat until thick, adding vinegar slowly without boiling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POTATO SALAD. Mrs. N. G. Ledgerwood, 1577 West Twenty-first street. — Pare and slice some cold boiled potatoes; peel and slice thin one onion; mix on a salad dish and pour over them the following dressing: Three eggs (beaten,) one cup sour cream, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful of mustard, one-half teaspoonful of red pepper wet in a little water, one-half cup of sugar, butter size of an egg. Mix all together, set on fire, add one pint of vinegar

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