by S B » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:32 pm
This is more of an idea than an exact recipe, but it may work.
Try adding some lemon juice or vinegar of your choice AND a little sugar or stevia or whatever you use for a sweetener AND perhaps a pinch of salt (if you can use it) to a McD mayo recipe. I have done this and have gotten similar to Miracle Whip. I do not know the amounts because I did not measure -- I simply added the extra ingredients until the mixture tasted good to me.
I grew up on Miracle Whip instead of mayo, too. I used to LOVE the SAD potato salad Mama used to make containing it. Basically, the dressing was a mixture of Miracle Whip (and maybe a little regular mayo -- not sure and will never know, now, because and she passed away over 15 years ago), some very finely minced raw onion, a little sweet pickle relish (or some vinegar from the relish), a little prepared yellow mustard, a little celery seed (or some very finely minced raw celery), and a little salt & pepper. (I do not remember if she used hard boiled eggs in it -- but we McDers would NOT be using them, anyway.) Then she topped her pretty light yellow potato salad with a sprinkling of paprika to make it even prettier and tastier.
I have made similar potato salad using McD type mayo fixed-up to taste something like Miracle Whip. Of course, I used less salt than Mama used to use in her potato salad -- and about 1/4 to 1/3 of the small amount of salt I did use was potassium salt. The result tasted ALMOST as good as Mama's!
Hope this helps!
