Title: Old Fashioned Dutch Potato Salad - Pennsylvania Dutch
Categories: Salad Vegetable
Yield: 8 Servings

5	lg	Potatoes (about 2 1/2 pounds), boiled with skins on
		Homemade mayonnaise
1	tb	White vinegar; more or less to taste
1		Red pepper; diced
1		Green pepper; diced
1		Stalk celery with leaves; diced
2	ts	Celery seed
		Salt and pepper to taste

When potatoes have boiled, cool and remove the skins. Cut into 1-inch cubes. In a large bowl, spoon in 4 heaping tablespoons of mayonnaise (homemade or commercial). Add 1 tablespoon of white vinegar and whisk together.

Add the cubed potatoes, red and green peppers and celery seed. Little by little, add as much mayonnaise as you like. Season with salt and pepper to taste and refrigerate to cool.

Variation: Add 2 chopped hard-boiled eggs and/or 1 small chopped onion to potato salad.

Yield: 8 servings

A Dutch recipe from Manayunk, Pennsylvania

Taken from "The Original Philadelphia Neighborhood Cookbook" by Irina Smith and Ann Hazan, published by Camino Books, Philadelphia, PA, c. 1988. Entered for you by: Bill Webster From: Bill Webster Date: 18 Oct 97 Mastercook Recipes (Mailing List) Ä

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