Creamy Potato Salad

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 6 medium potatoes (2 pounds)
• 1/2 lb bacon, prepared as in homemade fresh bacon bits
• 1 cup thinly sliced celery
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
• 1/3 cup sweet pickle relish
• 1 1/4 cups mayonnaise or 1 1/4 cups salad dressing
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons celery seeds
• 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
• 2 teaspoons prepared mustard
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 2 hardboiled egg, coarsely chopped

Recipe

• 1 cook potatoes in boiling, salted water until tender.
• 2 drain well.
• 3 peel and cube potatoes.
• 4 transfer to a large bowl.
• 5 add celery, onion, sweet relish and bacon bits.
• 6 combine mayo, sugar, celery seed, vinegar, mustard, and salt.
• 7 add mayo mixture to potatoes.
• 8 toss lightly to coat potato mixture.
• 9 carefully fold in the chopped eggs.
• 10 cover and chill thoroughly.
• 11 bacon bit tip: partially freeze your package of bacon. use a sharp knife and cut the frozen bacon into long strips about 1/4 inch wide. turn the bacon and cut the strips into pieces also about 1/4 in wide. you now have perfect raw bacon pieces to fast fry. no need to separate. they will separate during cooking. perfect bacon bits.