poll :salad dressing homemade vs ready-made

Loin Ranger · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:07 pm

I am in the middle of making potato salad to go with the left over pulled pork and side ribs and I am just wondering how many of us use homemade salad dressing and if any use ready made of one type or another :?:

headpiggy · **Joined:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:26 am **Posts:** 1075

Are you asking if we use a store bought salad dressing to make potato salad? Or are you just asking if we make our own salad dressings. I use several store bought salad dressings to make my potato salad.

Loin Ranger · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:39 pm

a little from column a and a little from column b there Jim. We always use my grandmothers homemade dressing for potato salad and was wondering about other folks I know there is store bought but have never used it, funny thing about my grandmothers recipe it is almost identical in ingredients and amounts to Wendy aka "da better half" grandmothers.

Jet_deck · **Joined:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:39 am **Posts:** 567

Salad dressing goes on salad.
Miracle Whip goes in potatoe salad. What is the problem ?

Loin Ranger · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:15 pm

I know that alot of tv chefs use a doctored up mayo as the dressing for potato salad my family has always made a homemade boiled dressing and it has always been a hit whenever we served it just wondered if anyone else went to the trouble of homemade or not

headpiggy · **Joined:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:26 am **Posts:** 1075

So what is this recipe? My recipe has english cream salad dressing along with miracle whip, mustard and some other ingriedents. Can't remember them all but it is written down some were. Now this is not store bought but it is not labour intensive to make either. The one trick that I have found with potatoe salad is that it needs to site in the fridge over night for the potatoes to absorb all the flavour.

sksmoker · **Joined:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:04 pm **Posts:** 443

I use store bought dressings for my salad. I hate potato salad, so I can't answer that.

Loin Ranger · **Posted:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:06 pm

home made potato salad dressing recipe

1/2 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1/4 cup water
1 egg, beaten
1/2 teaspoon cellery seed
pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS
Whisk together the sugar, flour, mustard, salt, vinegar, water and egg.
Cook in a double boiler until thick; allow to cool. Mix with equal parts mayonnaise or Miracle whip and stir into potato salad.

can also add crumbled crisp bacon

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