I’ve written about potato salad before, but as I’ve been asked to make some for tomorrow, it’s on my mind. When I was a child potato salad (which wasn’t that common) was left over boiled potato, cubed and dressed with salad cream – not mayonnaise, we didn’t have mayonnaise then. I had a friend whose mother was educated in France and they made mayonnaise and there was a great palaver about it – I didn’t ever try it, I just remember being in her kitchen when it was being made. I can’t remember particularly liking potato salad, but I guess I ate it because in general we ate what we were given. I don’t mean we were forced to eat what we didn’t like, for example my sister wasn’t keen on certain foods (unlike omnivorous me) and would only be given small portions of whatever it was, or something else instead.
Back to potato salad. Once I was independent I guess I probably made potato salad, like mum, with cubed cold boiled potatoes and salad cream, Heinz, because that’s what I’d grown up with.
Salad cream is a creamy, pale yellow condiment based on an emulsion of about 25–50 percent oil in water, emulsified by egg yolk and acidulated by spirit vinegar. It is somewhat similar in composition to mayonnaise and may include other ingredients such as sugar, mustard, salt, thickener, spices, flavouring and colouring. The first ready-made commercial product was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1914, where it is used as a salad dressing and a sandwich spread.
Thank you Wikipedia
I don’t remember making it very often, I guess only when I had left over boiled potatoes. Then I went to the US to stay with a friend and my eyes were opened to the delights of real potato salad, with mayonnaise, finely chopped onions, gherkins, maybe grated cheese, or chopped pimentos, or herbs other than mint. Now it is one of my favourite things and it’s hard to resist eating it while I’m making it.
So tomorrow I’ll make potato salad from my friends, and try and ensure there is sufficient to serve and I haven’t “tested” it too much!
My featured image is of Tinton going on an adventure – I don’t seem to have any images of potatoes or potato salad, or mayonnaise.
Lois Elsden 
Vinaigrette, or lemon juice, salt, and olive oil, work very well too and are lighter (no wonder you never tried the homemade mayonnaise, it looks and is quite sickly and requires a strong stomach to process it…). I found the “Tinton” hilarious, by the way 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I think Tinton needs his own set of adventures, doesn’t he! I did laugh when you mentioned him 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Now there’s a topic for your writing: Tintin meets Tinton over Christmas and a whole set of unexpected events ensues 😀😀😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s a brilliant thought! I must reread Tintin to get in the groove! I bought “Tintin in Tibet” a little while ago, I had it as a child and think it must have been given to me one Christmas or birthday because from being quite young I was fascinated by Tibet and the Himalayas.
LikeLiked by 1 person