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    Home » Recipes » Amish Salads

    Sweet Amish Potato Salad

    Published: Feb 14, 2014 · Updated: Nov 14, 2020 by Kevin Williams | 8 Comments

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    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
    • 📋 Potato Salad Instructions
    • 🥔 Additional Amish Potato Salad Recipes
    • 📖 Full Recipe

    🥔 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

    📋 Potato Salad Instructions

    1. Cook potatoes in skins, not quite soft.
    2. Chill till cold. Put through salad maker.
    3. Mash boiled eggs with potato masher.
    4. Add cut-up celery as you like.
    5. 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
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    Course Salad, Side Dish
    Cuisine American, Amish

    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!
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    Comments

    1. Kentucky Lady 717

      February 14, 2014 at 4:32 pm

      Sounds good, very similar to the way I make mine 🙂

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    2. Rebecca wellington

      February 14, 2014 at 9:23 pm

      Potato salad recipe sounds great. What is a salad maker? Becky

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    3. Carolyn

      February 15, 2014 at 8:33 pm

      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.

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      • sara

        February 16, 2014 at 9:27 pm

        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,

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    4. Donna

      March 05, 2016 at 4:25 pm

      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!

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      • Kevin

        March 05, 2016 at 4:55 pm

        Yum, Donna, I think that sounds good!

        Reply
    5. Connie

      March 05, 2016 at 8:18 pm

      I am going to try this, but with less sugar.
      Anyone know what a salad maker is?

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      • Kevin

        March 05, 2016 at 11:11 pm

        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...

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