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......

 

[kenmoreforever]

butch, I will have this for supper tonight. i will have the whole thing to myself as my wife won't touch bologna.lol/

 

[butch-innj]

Wow....I hope you didn't make like 5 lbs of it.
Thats alot of Bologna !!!

For those of you that don't live in my area....we don't call
it bologna.....we call it bolony.
I don't know why....its just the way it is and always has been.

 

[xraytech]

Butch, same in our area it is bolony, or also called jumbo too.

 

[moonvalleycacti]

Every time i see this thread i go Ewww...LoL, makeit an antipoasta

 

[yogitunes]

X-RAYTECH

my family is from an area not too far from you....

uniontown
mcclendontown
hooverworks beehive coke ovens
masontown

an area where they still use wringer washers, coal heaters that you have to "bank" at night, out houses, and they call soda "POP"...I love to go back and visit...good ole fashioned living....what a great time we always have...

 

[xraytech]

Uniontown and Masontown are really close to me, and you musn't forget our slang like tin foil and gum bands, samiches and chimleys and of course youns or yins the equivalent of ya'll. and that it is woosh and not wash, like woosh clothes or wooshington.
We also live where there is no gas service or cable avaliable, we have wells and septic tanks because there is no public water or sewage, clotheslines are abundant, and being so close to West virginia a good possibility that at least one person in your neighborhood has at least 1 junk car in their yard.
And if you want to go out to dinner you must drive to town which is like 15 miles away and there is no such thing as having a pizza or chineese food delivered. A high end store would be J.C.Penney or Sears Roebuck.
And we cant forget that the roads that are paved never get repaved but the potholes are patched in the early spring and then the roads get tar and chipped in mid summer, but the dirt roads get a fresh coat of gravel in the late spring after the potholes are fixed.

 

[yogitunes]

Ah!...great memories of times passed...havent been there in about 2 years....family gets bigger yet farther apart and 2nd and 3rd cousins don't keep in touch tha much...

I loved going to "PEACHINS" for shopping bargains and then to Montgomery Wards...we don't have that out here....and not to mention Gabrielle's....not sure if its still called that, name kept changing, went there with my partner, they actually had a big/tall section, 4 shopping carts later and only spent 90.00...what a great place...we always have to visit the caves and the big cross on the hill everytime...I was out there in 1999, just came over the top of summit mountain, rt40, and my brakes went to the floor, scared the crap out of me all the way down, riding the emergency brake, all safe but never want to do that again! that was also the first tme I seen a super walmart that was open all night...got my oil changed at 2am...we just got a super walmart here a few months ago....we usually stayed with my aunt out there...i loved the little house, 2bedrooms, kitchen, livingroom...no hot water, no bathroom, only cold water to the sink, water ran out onto the ground, outhouses, had to go outside to get to the basement, carry coal in for the furnace, for them that was everyday life, but i really had a great time, all the stories my parents would tell us about living back home on the farm....best part for me was, of coarse, washing the clothes in the maytag wringer and hanging the clothes on the line, and the rinse bucket...I could have left big city life for that in a minute...just fond memories of great times!

 

[xraytech]

I have heard a lot of Peachins, but have never been there. I work with quite a few people from uniontown and daisytown and masontown who frequent that place. I was just out Rte 40 2 weeks ago for the Pike festival, but didnt make it bast beallsville and bentleyville.
asnd I feel there is nothing like traffic(2-3 cars in line creeping along)caused by getting stuck behind a tractor or when one of the neighbor's cows gets loose and wont get off of the road.I was late for work once when I nworked in Pittsburgh because of the neighbors cow, those city folk just stared in amazement that it was even possible, even better the day I came in and said I had hit a cow on my way home th night before. What more can you expect from a tiny town that main street is a yellow brick road.

 

[tlee618]

I made the bologna salad yesterday.....I was never a big fan of it so maybe that is why I didn't care for this salad. My mom use to make about the same thing but used ham. Now that I liked. At any rate the dispoal got a big bowl of it today.LOL

 

[mattl]

It's" balony" here in Michigan too. My mother used to make a simpler version, just bologna, sweet relish and miracle whip. You can do it in the food processor too. We never used ring bologna for this, we used the locally produced Kogel's sandwich bologna. I still buy ring bologna and boil it for dinner now and then with boiled potatoes and broccoli. Always top that with horseradish.

Spread the ham salad on bread and top with some lettuce and it's pretty good.

 

[mixergal]

Good ole' Kogel's!

It's easy to get spoiled on their balony and their viennas too!

My mom used to make this stuff for her 3rd husband. I was in high school at the time, and thought it was utterly disgusting. I've never been a big balony fan - but if I did eat it, it'd have to be made from Kogel's. While you're at it, wash it down with a big glass of Verner's!

Oh, and here in Michigan - well, at least in Bay City, we say "warsh" instead of "wash" My husband makes fun of me sometimes, because if I get really upset or excited about something, my "Bay City accent" comes out full-force. It's heavily influenced by New England accents - so we say "yous", for example. The one that drives hubby crazy is what he dubbs "the wandering 't'". i.e: "I saw my cousint acrosst the street with yous guys hangin up the warsh."

-Sherri