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Ham salad seems to be a concoction that has a lot of little "secrets" to it. There were two "mom & pop" places in my hometown (each at opposite ends of the ciity) that featured delis that offered "homemade ham salad" that was "legendary." Each place fiercely protected its recipe. SIGH, not legendary enough because each grocery store closed its doors this past year, victim of the recession and slow economy....so there is now noplace to go in Middletown, Ohio for a wonderful homemade ham salad. But, you can still make your own no matter where you live. Lovina's been writing a lot lately about pork and hog butchering so this seems like a good time to share this recipe. Give it a try!
Homemade Ham Salad
2 cups ground, cooked ham
3 small stalks celery, diced fine
1 large dill pickle
1 ¼ teaspoons dry mustard
¼ teaspoon onion powder
½ cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon salt
Chop ham and grind through a hand-grinder or electric food processors, for those of you with electric. Pack ham firmly into each cup and then put into a bowl. Then cut celery, and pickle with a sharp knife and add into ham. In a separate bowl, add dry mustard, onion powder, mayonnaise, salt, and lemon juice and stir. Additional mayonnaise may be added to suit your taste. Then stir this mixture into the ham. Mix and spread onto sandwich bread. Ham salad tastes even better the next day after being refrigerated overnight. Also tastes great spread on crackers. Makes a pound of salad.
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Re: Homemade Ham Salad, Anyone?
Newmans Grocery store in Wellston, Ohio has THE BEST ham salad. Now I don't rightly know how it is made. This is a small hometown meat market. Its in Jackson County, Ohio. If you stop in there to get some, you'll have to try their "veals" These are not baby cows! They are pounded out pork that is breaded in something and you deep fry them. They are FAMOUS around here. To get them anywhere else you have to order them by Jackson County Veals.
Thank you for the recipes, I'd love to try it!
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Gosh, this post looks suspicously like spam or someone trying to blatantly advertise...buuut, in case it is not, I'll leave it up....I'm a sucker for homemade ham salad...
Re: Homemade Ham Salad, Anyone?
Everyone made me so hungry for "ham" salad after reading their comments, I made a batch yesterday -- with baloney, of course!
Yum-O!
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I have worked in 3 delis and the ham salad was always the end pieces of lunch meat . I guess they're all the same!! I do like real ham salad-with ham or bologna. It's all good!
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My daughter at a very early age would ask the delit person as I ordered a pound or two of hamsalad if it was the ham kind or the bologna kind. LOL She did not want me to goof and get the ham kind again. LOL Some places add a teaspoon or so red jello for a pretty color and a tad of sweetness. Echridge bologna makes the best hamsalad.
In a grinder gring the bologna, sweet pickle relish, onion and boiled eggs. Then stir in lots of miracle whip. Yummmmm Maybe i should make some tommorrow.
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I'm getting hungry reading that post!
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I love ham salad. Some of the best I've had was from S. Clyde Weaver Meat Market in the Lancaster, Pa. area. I was visiting there a couple of years ago and stumbled upon this market and picked out a few local specialties to sample for an impromptu picnic lunch. The "beet eggs" were awesome as well. Yum ! Thanks for the recipe Kevin.
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Like BK, I worked in a couple different deli's/meat departments at a grocery store, and we always saved up the ends of the lunch meat too. We'd throw them into a 5 gal. bucket, then when it was full, we'd make "ham" salad out of it. Now I notice it's called "sandwich spread" at Krogers. They probably got in trouble making people think there was ham in it! My former MIL always made what she called "deviled ham'', and it was just ground up baloney, sweet pickles, hard boiled eggs, and mayo. I always liked it better than the real ham salad because it had more flavor. Yum! Wish I had some now!
(yea, the smiley's are back...thanks, Fending!)
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I always used bologna. It has a better taste than ham. Process bologna, deviled eggs and sweet pickles. Add dill weed and stir in mayonaise.
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LOL... my gpa makes ham salad, and the main ingredient is ground-up bologna, the cheapest he can find! I can only imagine that the nasty-reviewer from Amazon would shudder and faint at the thought ;-)
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I worked in a deli during college and it made a house ham salad. The main ingredient wasn't ham. Instead, the 'meat' was the ends of the different lunch meat. We also added pickle relish, red powdered kool-aide, and mayo. Makes you think twice about what you're getting in that deli department