In Estonia pretty much every gathering would have this salad on the table Christmas, New Years, mid-summer day, birthdays, etc. The salad is often served with blood sausage or meat.
Serves 6-8
Ingredients
5-7 medium potatoes, boiled with skin on
2-3 eggs, hard-boiled
1 fresh cucumber
4-5 medium pickles
1 onion
250g smoked pork sausage
1 apple
1 tin/can peas and carrots, keep the water
250g mayonnaise
250g creme fraiche
1 tsp English mustard
Pinch salt
Pinch pepper
Small handful dill, chopped
Method
Boil the unpeeled potatoes until tender, let them cool.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes.
Boil the eggs and cut them into small cubes.
Finely dice the onion.
Cut all the other ingredients into the small cubes.
Combine all chopped ingredients and set aside.
Mix the mayonnaise, water from tin/can, creme fraiche, mustard, salt, pepper and dill in a bowl.
Add the mayonnaise mixture to the salad ingredients.
Let the salad set for 2-4 hours before serving.
I often find the salad to be the best the following morning.