Bologna Salad

[butch-innj]

Bet you never heard of it.
Before I was even born people in this area made bologna salad
because it was very cheap to make.
Families were big and you had to learn to stretch food and
money as far as it would go.
Alot of people in my area made bologna salad and actually
I still make it and still like it.
Its something different - if you like to try new things.

BOLOGNA SALAD:

3 lbs of low-salt bologna (not sliced)
1-1/2 lbs of american cheese
5 or 6 hard boiled eggs (shells removed of course)
1 jar of sweet pepper relish
Hellmans Mayo

Alternate running the bologna and cheese thru an old fashioned
meat grinder.
Chop the eggs up as fine as you like and add to the bowl.
Dump in the whole jar of sweet pepper relish including the
juice.
Add mayo to your taste.
Stir everything up until well blended, adding more mayo
if necessary or to your liking.
Instead of using the sweet pepper relish you can add dill
pickle that been finely chopped along with some of the juice.
I like it either way.
Make sure and refrigerate.
It makes really good sandwiches and its also excellent of
crackers of any kind.

 

[sudsmaster]

I bet you could use Spam instead of bologna...?

 

[butch-innj]

I don't know.
I've never tried anything other than bologna.
Seems like Spam would be awfully salty though.

 

[autowasherfreak]

My mother used to make that all the time. I haven't had it in years. She would also make ham salad when we would have left over ham.

 

[butch-innj]

Ham salad, chicken salad, turkey salad, egg salad, I love them
all !

 

[frigilux]

I grew up---and still live in---the rural upper-Midwest, and this was a staple at card parties, and after-event get-togethers. I always saw this used as sandwich filling, which was heaped onto sandwich buns, and sometimes wrapped in foil, then heated in the oven.

I remember seeing women attach their pot-metal meat grinder to the countertop, then grind a ring of bologna, the cheese and some onion.

And sometimes it was made with Spam!

 

[davek]

Sounds like a bad joke but I'm sure it tastes good. Lileks.com would love this one!

 

[sudsmaster]

As it happens... I have a meat grinder attachment for the KA stand mixer... some cans of spam... plenty of eggs... mayo... relish... the american cheese might be a challenge... is it ok to substitute real cheese, like colby or cheddar...?

 

[butch-innj]

SUDSMASTER -

I don't know.

I've never tried to make it with any other kind of cheese only
because for me it wouldnt be "original".

If it were me - I'd take a little Spam on a fork with a little
cheese of your choice and see how it tastes together.

And yes, every so often my Mom would include a large sweet
onion ground in with it.

FRIGILUX -

I've never heard of wrapping them in aluminum foil and heating
them up. I would think that the moisture would make the roll
or bun go soggy.



My Mom told me that this was a popular sandwich spread when
she was a kid. She was born in 1914.

 

[favorit]

Do you really call Bologna this ...

.. mortadella ?? We too, in a slang/dialect way

PS Please don't bite DJ.Gabriele ... he lives in Bologna, so.. *LOL*

 

[frigilux]

This is the kind of "ring balogna" I've seen used to make the sandwich filling.

 

[bajaespuma]

Mortadella--yum!

I'm a new mortadella fanatic. I still love good American Bologna like Boar's Head, but Mortadella is a very different experience. A professor of mine who lives part time in Umbertide taught me how to fry it with eggs for a wicked good breakfast.

Does anyone here have a good recipe for "Deviled Ham"? I bet it's very similar to the Bologna salad recipe.

 

[xraytech]

Grandma would make this and ham salad for sandwiches rather frequently, I always found both to be quite nasty, even though I enjoy all of the luncheon salads.

I remember helping make this salad, we would screw the grinder to the side of one of the cellar steps and I would always put the chunks of cheese and bologna into the grinder while grandma would crank the grinder.

I never did like bologna except for frying it and serving it on toast with some cheese and miracle whip

 

[sudsmaster]

Ham sounds good. Maybe I'll try it with that.

I've just never been all that fond of bologna luncheon meat.

Spam and cheese is a good combo.

And a sweet onion sounds good too.

Why not some garlic and ginger as well?

 

[butch-innj]

I just read on yahoo or excite or somewhere that Spam is
making a comeback in its popularity.
UGH
I've always hated that stuff.
Good for people that like it....its just not for me.

SUDSMASTER -

I've never had garlic nor ginger with ham, nor bologna.
Ginger sounds good but I'm not sure about the garlic.
And yes, I do love garlic.
I guess this is a recipe that you can "fiddle" around with
and make it to your liking.
For me, its just the old fashioned bologna salad.
I like it the way it is.
Old saying "don't fix it if it aint broke"

 

[sudsmaster]

What, no anchovies?

 

[yogitunes]

Try it!

Second BEST thing to pass thru my lips...lol

 

[toggleswitch2]

What, no anchovies?

Waht is the hardest part of a male-to-female gender-change?

Sewing on the anchovies.

 

[yogitunes]

Toggle...you're funny!

Just like the blind guy walking past the fishery and tipping his hat and saying "good morning ladies"....lol

we are warped......