If it is of any interest... West Virginians make potato salad with hard
boiled eggs. But so do western Marylanders and western Pennsylvanians. Could
be the English/Scottish influence or the "PA Dutch" ie Quaker influence?
Maybe a German influence - who can tell? It's done with 2 parts mayo and 1
part sour cream for the dressing - no salad dressing. And sometimes red
potatos are used with the skins left on. Would be happy to send my family
recipe off list if anyone is interested.

Lonny Watro
Short Gap, WV (very close to western MD and western PA)

P.S. Some of the people of western Maryland, West Virginia, and western PA
had ancestors who originated in Virginia. You can see a Virginia influence
in many of the foods that are served here.

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>>>Anne:  Do they put hard boiled eggs
> in their potato  salad? Mom used to cut up the eggs in the salad, then put
> some sliced  eggs on the top, topped then with paprika and nutmeg. First
> time
> I  added paprika and nutmeg to potato salad for my Richmond-born husband,
> he
> asked if I was poisoning him!
>
> My mother's folks weren't from the valley but Mom (SW WVa) fixed her
> potato
> salad that way.  Might have had something to do with her  father
> originally
> being from the Pound area in SW VA and his ancestors  coming from via the
> Valley, altho they were English/Scottish.  Her  mother was from KY, tho
> assume her
> ancestors came thru southern  VA
>
>
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