German Potato Salad

This is my favorite German Potato Salad recipe.  I get many requests for this for potlucks.   But you can now make it for yourself.  Serve this hot salad and there will be no leftovers!

5 large potatoes – peeled, sliced  in ¼ inch slices

12 slices of bacon

1 onion, chopped

1 tablespoon cornstarch  (do not use flour as a substitute)

1/3 cup cider vinegar (it must be cider vinegar)

1/3 cup sugar

1 cup water

1 ½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon celery seed

In large saucepan, boil the potato slices in plenty of water.  (Don’t boil too long or it will turn to mush-probably no more than 9 minutes.)  Drain right away.  Do not let them sit in the hot water.

Meanwhile, in a skillet, fry bacon until crisp.  Remove bacon from skillet.  

Brown chopped onion in the remaining bacon drippings.  Let get really brown.    

Add cornstarch and stir.  

Add sugar and stir.  

Add cider vinegar and stir.  

Add water and stir.  

Add salt and celery seed.  Stir sauce and cook for three minutes.  

Crumble bacon (reserve some for the top) and return to sauce.

Drain potatoes and gently stir into sauce.

Transfer to serving dish.  Sprinkle the reserved bacon over the top.

Serves 6.

Pumpkin Cookies with Bourbon Icing

This makes a soft cookie.

Pumpkin Cookies

• 2 sticks butter
• 3 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 large can pumpkin
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

1. Cream butter and sugar together.
2. Add eggs and stir well.
3. Add pumpkin and stir.
4. Add cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.  Stir well.
5. Add flour a little at time, stirring to mix well.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
7. On a cookie sheet lined with a silicone cookie sheet liner, drop dough onto the sheet, using a medium sized cookie dough scoop.
8. Bake 12-16 minutes.
9. Let cool one minute before removing from the sheet and place on rack to finish cooling.
10. Makes approximately 60 medium sized cookies.

Bourbon Frosting

• 2 sticks butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon bourbon
• 1 2lb. bag confectioner’s sugar

1. Cream butter and confectioner’s sugar.
2. Add vanilla and bourbon.
3. Stir until smooth.
4. Frost cookies when they are completely cooled.
5. Enjoy.

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Nancy's Tangy Ham Sandwiches

• 2 pretzel burger rolls (I find them at Cub Foods)
• 6 slices shaved ham
• 2 slices thin sliced Swiss cheese
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 ½ teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon mustard
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon minced garlic (the refrigerated kind in a jar)

1. Melt butter in microwave.
2. Add the Worcestershire sauce, mustard, brown sugar, and garlic. 
3. Mix well.
4. Slice the rolls horizontally.
5. Brush with the butter mixture.
6. Brush mixture on the insides of the rolls, making sure they are covered.
7. Add one slice cheese to one side of each roll.
8. Add three slices of ham to the other side of each roll.
9. Toast under the broiler until cheese is melted.
10. Assemble the sandwiches.
11. Serve and enjoy.