Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

16 md Small Potatoes 1 1/2 tb Pickle relish
3/4 c Mayonaise 3/4 tb Dry parsley flakes
1 1/2 ts Yellow Mustard Pinch of Celery Salt
12 Eggs, hard boiled. 1/2 md White onion, diced
1 c Apple cider vinegar 4 Celery stalks, split

Gather ingredients. The half cup of sprinkling vinegar should be just
estimated from the bottle as you sprinkle. It's just a conservative
guestimate and the exact amount will depend upon the amount of potatoes to
sprinkle. Don't worry about it too much. Boil potatoes whole. If your
potato size varies much, put in the larger ones first. A medium sized
potato will take ABOUT 25 minutes total. A smaller one maybe 18 minutes.
One of the keys here is to boil the potatoes till cooked but still a little
firm. If they are cooked till soft, then the subsequent stirring will
render the salad mushy. You don't want them crunchy, but just cooked and
still firm. That's the first secret! Peel the potatoes when they are still
warm. The warmer the better. Peeling them AFTER they are cooked seems to
make a difference in taste. They MUST not cool entirely or the vinegar will
not be absorbed properly. I peel them almost straight out of the pot when
still darn hot. That's the second secret! Cut them into irregular chunks,
little wedges about an inch or slightly less on a side with the greatest
thickness about a half inch. Just cut a little off one end, then cut
another small chunk off, then keep cutting pieces off in random sizes of
varying shapes, mostly you end up with very irregular pyramidal
shapes....You want pieces big enough to not turn into mush but small enough
for ...your liking! The edges will eventually break off and mush up onto
the salad while the larger parts of the bodies will remain whole. You are
cutting, peeling and dropping them into a large bowl. There really should
be two people doing this or one should work as quickly as possible. After
you have cut up a potato or two, sprinkle them fairly generously vinegar
and stir around a bit in the bowl..just a bit so you get the vinegar that
fell to the bottom of the bowl on the potatoes. As you finish a potato or
two, sprinkle each (they should be warm to hot when you sprinkle, if
possible...THAT's the BIG secret to this recipe) fairly generously. I put
my finger over the end of the bottle of cider vinegar and drizzly drip it
onto the potatoes making sure each is sprinkled well. If you run out of the
half cup, just use more. Each potato gets a fairly generous sprinkling of
vinegar. THAT point is more important than the measurement of the 1/2 cup
of vinegar above. Note: I don't measure out a half cup and then pour it on
them. That would be awkward. I did measure this once out so I could have a
recipe for a friend and I learned I sprinkled ABOUT a half a cup. Salt them
at this point; I don't know how much....Just salt them like you like. The
vinegar needs a comment. The importance of a generous sprinkling of vinegar
while the potatoes are warm/hot can't be over emphasized. They will soak up
the vinegar. I am always amazed at how much vinegar it takes and how when
they are done, the vinegar is tasted, but the dish is not 'vinegary' like a
hot German potato salad which I hate....trust in a good sprinkling of
vinegar at this point and if in doubt, sprinkle a little more! Stir in the
other ingredients, leaving the eggs to last. Chop up the eggs, slicing,
cutting in whatever size/shape you wish but we are not talking about whole
or half eggs here. Cut them up. The yolks will fall apart when sliced up
and that's ok. Stir all the eggs into the rest of the mix. The yolks will
incorporate into the salad and you don't have to worry about them; don't
stir forever or worry about being gentle or anything. Just mix it up. Add
the other 1/2 cup of vinegar. If you are a real chicken, you may wish to
add only a 1/4 cup but it will probably take it all (and maybe even a bit
more eventually). Take a taste. Add some more salt if needed. It will be
good but not perfect at this point. Taste it again. Note the vinegar flavor
peeking through. It may even be fairly vinegary (that's a word, right?).
Cover and put in a fridge over night. That's the last big secret. Taste
again after sitting in the fridge overnight. Notice that the vinegar flavor
is much softer. Add some more vinegar and let that absorb for an hour or
two. You may well have used much more than the 1 cup total by this point.
Salt to taste if needed. You can serve this without the over-night setting
but it will truly be a noticeably better salad the next day. You will want
to adjust the amount of mayo to suit your taste. I like a pretty mayoee
salad. Probably even a bit more than this calls for. Some don't. You may
want more or less celery. My wife doesn't like any (egads!) None of these
amounts need be exact, but they are close enough for a good starting point.
The key is to use more vinegar than you could have imagined, sprinkling
well while the potatoes are hot and firm but not crunchy. The rest is all
to taste. I've never served this to a group that didn't ohh and ahh over
it. It is a bit of an effort but if you take the time you will have some of
the best potato salad ever.

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