Spring is slowly arriving in most areas and I can't wait for the warmth! The potato salad recipe from the Original Amish Cook Cookbook is the perfect picnic pal. Initially, my wife Rachel, recoiled when she saw how much sugar was listed in the ingredients.  But I had tasted this potato salad before and really was smitten with its sweetness and told her that she might be pleasantly surprised.  So Rachel made two versions, one without the sugar, the other with.  Both versions using this recipe turned out nicely. I actually preferred the sweet one and Rachel was on the fence, actually liking the sweet version.  So at the end of the day she just combined both and and that may have been the perfect potato salad.
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🥔 Potato Salad Ingredients
- 6 cups potatoes diced
- 6Â eggs
- 1 /4 medium onion chopped fine
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 /4 cup milk
- 1Â scant tablespoon mustard
- 1 /4 cup vinegar
- 1 1 /4 cup white sugar
- 3 /4 cup cut-up celery
- 1 1 /2 cups of salad dressing
📋 Potato Salad Instructions
- Cook potatoes in skins, not quite soft.
- Chill till cold. Put through salad maker.
- Mash boiled eggs with potato masher.
- Add cut-up celery as you like.
- Mix dressing and mix with potato salad.
🥔 Additional Amish Potato Salad Recipes
Rosana's WOW Potato Salad & her musings about potato salad in general!
Gloria's Potato Salad
Amish Sweet Potato Spring Salad
Grandma Mary's Six Spoon Potato Salad
Amish Funeral Potato Salad
📖 Full Recipe
Sweet Amish Potato Salad
A simple crunchy creamy Amish Potato Salad
Ingredients
- 6 cups potatoes diced
- 6 eggs
- 1 /4 medium onion chopped fine
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 /4 cup milk
- 1 scant tablespoon mustard
- 1 /4 cup vinegar
- 1 1 /4 cup white sugar
- 3 /4 cup cut-up celery
- 1 1 /2 cups of salad dressing
Instructions
- Cook potatoes in skins, not quite soft.
- Chill till cold. Put through salad maker.
- Mash boiled eggs with potato masher.
- Add cut-up celery as you like.
- Mix dressing and mix with potato salad.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Kentucky Lady 717
Sounds good, very similar to the way I make mine 🙂
Rebecca wellington
Potato salad recipe sounds great. What is a salad maker? Becky
Carolyn
Sounds a lot like mine too. I use ranch salad dressing. It was not stated what kind to use in this recipe. Sounds great , I do not know that I will use that much sugar though, it seems like an awfully lot. It's worth a try.
sara
IT IS WAY TO MUCH SUGAR. I MADE IT THE WAY IT WAS WRITTEN. AND IT WAS SO SWEET NOBODY WOULD EAT IT. I MADE IT WITH WAY LESS SUGAR AND TURNED OUT DELICIOUS,
Donna
I make mine with 6 potatoes, 4 boiled eggs, celery, sweet pickle relish, a couple tablespoons of mustard, a little onion, miracle whip to as moist as you want it. This is sweet enough and everyone loves it. This is a past down recipe from 4 generations back. Sometimes I'll change it up and put dill pickle and a little dill juice in it instead of sweet pickle but most times just the sweet pickle recipe. Hope you try it. No need for all the sugar!
Kevin
Yum, Donna, I think that sounds good!
Connie
I am going to try this, but with less sugar.
Anyone know what a salad maker is?
Kevin
Connie, your question brings back memories..."salad makers" were a hand-cranked gadgets that used to be popular in Amish kitchens in the 1990s and earlier...it sort of shreds the vegetables if my memory serves me correctly....I forgot the reference to a salad maker was even in the recipe, I should probably add an explanation there...