Deviled Eggs

ANN PORTER'S DEVILED EGGS

INGREDIENTS:

8 eggs                                                         1 tablespoon sweet salad cubes, Mt. Olive brand pickles
1/2 teaspoon sugar                                      Morton table salt - to taste
2 1/2 tablespoons Duke's Mayonnaise      Freshly ground black peppercorns (Tellicherry) - to taste

Place eggs in a pot of cold water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat and turn the heat off and allow the eggs to remain in the pot covered for at least ten (10) minutes. Drain hot water and replace with cold tap water and add cubed ice to rapidly cool down which helps the egg shells to be removed. Remove egg shells and slice eggs long way. Take out egg yokes and place into a mixing bowl. Add sweet salad cubes (pickles), sugar, pepper, salt and Duke's mayonnaise and mix thoroughly. If mixture too stiff, add a little juice from the sweet salad cube pickles. Spoon egg yoke mixture back onto each egg white and sprinkle with paprika for presentation. Also, if mixture is too thin or loose add a little instant mashed potatoes to stiffen the mixture up.

Above deviled eggs completed on 08-26-13 with myself doing the "brawn" work like boiling, peeling and cutting the eggs in half and my bride did the seasoning, mixing and presentation; the intelligence stuff...grin if you must. I will post sequence pixs at a later date; in too big a hurry this afternoon for a retired person....another grin is in order! This recipe is wonderful.

Note: This deviled egg recipe was made by my Mom, (now deceased) for over 60 years. It is one of those recipes this is worth passing down through the family and it is used by my bride "Tweet" and both our daughters, Laura and Lisa. My brother Allen and Sister Sue Pettigrew continues to use it too. Duke's Mayonnaise is a South Eastern product and might not be available nationwide and would not recommend using a salad dressing or watered down version (low-cal) of mayonnaise. Duke's brand is the real deal! Also, my bride will boil a couple extra eggs, whereby she can really stack or pile up the deviled egg mixture onto each egg white.

My bride grew up consuming deviled eggs and potato salad that were mustard based and it didn't take very long to convert her over to the Duke's mayonnaise based deviled eggs and potato salad. It all boils down to what you were use to eating growing up as children and each one of us has a certain amount of psychological bias, however our taste, habits and lifestyle changes as we get older and able to experience different things. I will definitely consume the mustard based deviled eggs and potato salad but I do prefer the mayonnaise based ones better.

Recipe from Ann Porter with comments by Mickey Porter on February 18, 1999.

Joyce Porter aka my bride and her Deviled Eggs in the background 12-25-08. A green bean casserole in the foreground!

Below pix of my Mom taken in Jan. 2008. Click on thumbnail pix for a larger screen view:

Web published updated pixs by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 08-26-13.

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