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My niece asked me for the 'real' recipe for my mom's potato salad

She found a version online but said it didn't taste right, which made me realize I'd never written down the part about soaking the onions in vinegar for 15 minutes first. Does anyone else have a small step that gets left out when a recipe gets passed around?
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logantaylor
Forget the onions, what about the potatoes? Do you cool them completely before you mix everything or do you add the dressing while they're still a little warm? That's the secret in my house and nobody ever writes it down.
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lindareed
lindareed9d ago
Oh man, @logantaylor, that's the real potato salad debate right there. My grandma always swore by adding her vinegar dressing while the potatoes were hot, said they soaked it up better. But then you get that kind of gummy texture sometimes, idk. Maybe it's just me but I let them cool a bit now, like just warm, not hot. Seems like a good middle ground.
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