RECIPE: In honor of Mother's Day, My Mother, Christine J. Beeker, famous POTATO SALAD: Recipe:

[Guest]

My mother made a potato salad that was so delicious everyone wanted her recipe. Actually she perfected it from her mother, my grandmother, Isabelle Otranto. Here is the potato salad, written in my mother's own handwritting (a week before she passed away)

Introducing Mom’s potato salad

Written In her own words………

CHRISTINE J. BEEKER’S POTATO SALAD

Step 1

Take 6 to 8 russet or thin skinned potatoes - boil until fork goes in easily - drain and refrigerate over night - hard boil 2 to 3 eggs - refrigerate over night.

Step 2

Use 3 to 4 large Tablespoons of mayonnaise - put in medium bowl – add a little milk – 1 teaspoon of dry mustard – salt and pepper – stir/mix/whisk together until a little frothy – some what thick - not too thin.

Step 3

Peel and cut up potatoes – shell and chop up egg – place in large bowl – add mayonnaise mixture – stir together to fully covered – if desired, use more mayonnaise or milk –potatoes will absorb – if desired you can blend some chopped onion (approximately a Tablespoon amount of onion) and add a little water, place in blender and puree, then add to potato salad and mix together.

Step 4

If possible, let stand in refrigerator over night before serving.

 

[marilynfl]

Dianne, I love the onion/blender idea. Have always hated running into a chunk of raw

onion in creamy potato salad. Please give your mom a big hug from me for that gift.

(PS: Her recipe is almost identical to my mom's...only Mom's had pieces of large diced onions (which I methodically picked out.)

 

[joanietoo]

Great recipe, the simplest ones are always so good.

 

[Guest]

My mother created the liquified onions because my sister Connie hates onions and since we all loved

onions this was her compromise. Cool huh. My sister Connie now does the same thing, she just can't stand the thought of biting into an onion.