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Winter Salad

4 servings

Ingredients

• 3 parts potatoes, cooked with skin
• 1 part sour apples
• 1 part red beets
• 1 part pickled cucumbers
• oil (plenty)
• sour cream (a little)
• vinegar (a little)
• pepper (a little)
• salt (a little)
• corn salad (as needed)
• eggs, not quite hard-boiled (as needed)

Instructions

1. Slice three parts cooked potatoes with skin, one part sour apples, one part red beets, and one part pickled cucumbers into fine slices.
2. Carefully mix with a well-stirred dressing of plenty of oil, a little sour cream, vinegar, pepper, and salt, ensuring the slices remain intact.
3. Arrange in a salad bowl and decorate with a wreath of corn salad mixed with oil, vinegar, and salt, and not-quite-hard-boiled eggs cut into eight pieces.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.