50 year Old Shepherd Recipes   Venture into the kitchens of the past if you dare by trying these old fashioned recipes of a bygone generation of Shepherd homemakers

HOT POTATO SALAD  by Mrs. H. H. Neil – 1956

6 medium sized potatoes                        ¼ cup water

1 medium sized onion, sliced                 ½ cup vinegar

4 slices bacon, minced                           1 tsp. sugar

2 Tbsp. bacon drippings                         ½ tsp. salt

                                                               ¼ tsp. pepper

   Cook potatoes in jackets.  Cool, skin, and slice.  Pan broil minced bacon, then sauté onion in bacon drippings until brown.  Combine and heat water, vinegar, sugar, with potatoes.  Place in baking dish and heat in moderate oven, 350 deg., before serving.

From “Shepherd’s Recipe Roundup” book, compiled and sold by the Women’s Society of Christian Service of  the Shepherd Methodist Church in 1956.

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