pmeheran
Senior Cook
I am not exactly sure where this belongs, so I will let the admin people move it wherever. It is about comparing hoch deuch vs. platt deuch [high vs. low german cooking]. Suffice it to say they are very different. The recipe my mother gave me many years ago for potato salad was nothing like what I see in recipes now. It used no sugar or vinegar and definitely no mustard. It was not that complicated. The list was potatoes, hard boiled eggs, crisp bits of bacon [and you can cheat and add some bacon grease], onions, celery, mayonaise [no miracle whip]pickles and the list can go on, but no sugar and no vinegar, that's for low germans. I am not saying their food is bad, just a little strange.