Salad recipes

German-style tomato salad with a tangy vinegar, oil, and Worcestershire dressing seasoned with basil and thyme. Chilled and served on lettuce leaves.

Cinnamon red hots melt into this ruby gelatin salad layered with crushed pineapple and cherries, then crowned with a cooked, creamy dressing. A retro, sweet-tart molded salad for holiday tables.

German-style cold potato salad dressed with vinegar, mustard, and dill seed. No mayo, no eggs. Naturally creamy from reserved starchy potato water.

Calico salad is a colorful three-bean salad with kidney beans, green beans, and wax beans in a sweet vinegar dressing with chopped green pepper and onion.

German-style red beet salad marinated in vinegar, caraway seeds, horseradish, and cloves. Tangy, earthy, and best after soaking for several hours.

Sweet and sour potato salad with hard-boiled eggs, sweet pickles, and a homemade cooked dressing of egg yolks, vinegar, and mayonnaise. Old-school Pennsylvania Dutch picnic salad.

Classic potato salad: the church-supper, picnic-table original. Cubed potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, crunchy celery and onion, all dressed with a tangy mayo-vinegar binder. Six pantry ingredients.

Hot German bean salad gives black and kidney beans the sweet-and-sour treatment, with a glossy vinegar dressing and crisp-tender carrots, celery, and onion. Served warm, oil-free, and vegan. A fast, tangy twist on the bean salad.

Warm ham salad with a cooked vinegar dressing tossed with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and green pepper. Topped with American cheese strips and sliced hard-boiled eggs.

Old-fashioned cucumber and onion salad: paper-thin cucumber and onion slices marinated overnight in a sweet-tart vinegar brine. The crisp Midwestern picnic side that gets better as it sits.

Three-bean salad packed with green beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, corn, celery, carrots, and pimientos in a sweet-and-tangy vinegar dressing. The classic potluck make-ahead. Keeps in the fridge for weeks and gets better with time.

Five-bean salad with green, navy, lima, garbanzo, and kidney beans tossed with bell pepper, celery, and onion in a sweet-tangy vinegar marinade. The make-ahead potluck classic, vegan friendly.

Hot Dutch potato salad: warm cubed potatoes tossed with a tangy bacon-vinegar dressing, hard-boiled eggs, and crisp bell pepper. The Pennsylvania Dutch classic served warm, never cold.

Hot German potato salad with bacon, vinegar dressing, and a sweet-tangy sauce. Topped with broiled hot dogs for a one-pan supper. Wisconsin-Midwestern classic.

Creamy poppy seed salad dressing with cottage cheese, sugar, dry mustard, and dried onion. A sweet-tangy homemade dressing that brings spinach salads and fruit greens to life.

Rotkrautsalat is a traditional German red cabbage salad dressed with hot bacon fat, vinegar, wine, and caraway seeds. Shredded cabbage partially wilted by the warm dressing and topped with crispy crumbled bacon.