Finnish Beet Salad

==Description==
===Ingredients===
*2 	medium potatoes, cooked,peeled,and diced (I prefer white or large new potatoes, which have a less grainy texture) 	
*2 	tart Apples, peeled and diced 	
*2 	carrots, peeled,cooked,and diced 	
*2 	tablespoons dried Onion flakes 	
*2 	medium dill pickles, diced or grated 	
*3/4 	cup diced pickled Herring (optional) or salted Herring (optional) or minced sardines (optional) or Anchovies (optional) 	
*1/8 	teaspoon white pepper 	
*2 	cups cooked beets, peeled and diced 	
*1 	cup sour cream 	
*1 	tablespoon lemon juice 	
*2 	teaspoons beet juice 	
*1/4 	teaspoon salt 	
*1 	dash Sugar 	
*crumbled Bacon (optional)
===Directions===
Combine the potatoes, Apples, carrots, Onion, pickles, white pepper, and Herring (if you're using it).
Mix together the sour cream with the lemon juice, beet juice, salt, and Sugar until well blended to make the sour cream dressing.
Traditionally (and this is how you would want to make it for a dinner party), just before serving you would carefully add the beets- because if the beets are added too long 
before serving, the salad will turn a deep pink, whereas some people prefer it tinted only mildly pink; then you would turn into a salad bowl lined with crisp lettuce and serve chilled with the sour cream dressing mixture on the side.
However, I make the salad for picnics and potlucks and so I mix it all together - not worrying about any steps in preparation - just stir it all together at once, put it in the serving container, put crumbled Bacon over the top, and let it chill for at least an hour before I let anybody at it; it comes out nicely bright pink, which I find attractive and kids like.
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==See also==
Category:Finnish Salads 
 Category:Salads
 Category:Recipes
Category:Dinner Recipes
Category:Dinner Party
Category:Finnish Recipes
Category:Beet Salad Recipes
category:New potatoes Salad Recipescategory: Boiled New potatoes Recipes
category:Lemon Recipes
Category:Anchovies Recipes
category:white pepper Recipes
category:new potatoes Recipes
category:lemon juice Recipes
category:sour cream Recipes
category:Potato Recipes
category:Herring Recipes
category:lettuce Recipes
category:carrot Recipes
category:flakes Recipes
category:Apple Recipes
category:Sugar Recipes
category:granulated sugar Recipes
category:Bacon Recipes
category:Onion Recipes
category:salt Recipes
category:beet Recipes