Germanside
Potato Salad
From The Pattern cook-book, 1890
Serves 1
Potatoes and beets can be combined.
Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 133. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
POTATO SALAD. There is no salad in which there is such an opportunity for a variety of combinations as in this. New potatoes or the German potatoes are the best for the purpose ; a ripe, mealy potato breaks into crumbs and spoils the dish. When new or German potatoes are not obtainable, do not boil the potatoes quite so long as for other purposes, thus leaving them underdone ; they can then be cut in any de- sired shape. The simplest potato salad is made by slicing the pota- toes rather thinly, arranging a layer in the salad dish and covering lightly with any dressing preferred
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