It’s August, which means there is only one major picnic holiday left this summer. So I wanted to try a recipe for a classic picnic side — potato salad — as I continued to cook and research the dishes in my grandmother’s copy of “The Joy of Sharing.”

Margaret Lachenmeier contributed “Music Mothers’ Potato Salad” to this community cookbook published by the Oak Valley American Lutheran Women of Velva, North Dakota, in 1985.

This creamy potato salad served large groups of hungry people attending a speech meets, sports tournaments and music festivals in Velva over the past few decades.

Designed to feed a large group, “Music Mothers’ Potato Salad” requires 7 pounds of boiled potatoes and 12 hard-boiled eggs. Given that I didn’t need the traditional ice-cream-pail-sized serving, I cut the reci

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