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Ham Salad Spread

“My family has enjoyed this hearty ham salad spread for years. It came to be an unexpected leftover every time we had ham for a special dinner. Recently, I decided to measure the ingredients, write down the recipe and pass it on to my daughter and daughter-in-law. They encouraged me to share it with Reminisce readers. -Marcella Kulp, Quakertown, Pennsylvania”

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Reviewed: Feb. 1, 2009

This is the best recipe! I made it exactly like Marcella suggested, and it came out perfect. My husband thought it was the best he ever had! As other people have suggested, I can see how adding a chopped jalapeno would be really good too. I'll try that sometime. It's just the perfect solution for a lot of left over ham!

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Prudy

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Home Town: Wheatfield, New York, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 23, 2009

Although I am not a fan of ham salad, my husband definitely is, so I made this especially for him. He nearly ate the entire amount all by himself. Therefore, this 5 star rating is from him! The only thing I did differently was to chop and add a few green olives because hubby is a big lover of them! This was a great alternate way to use up leftover ham.

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Renee Ridgeway

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Home Town: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 22, 2009

This is a very good basic recipe that begs to be modified. I followed directions fairly closely but did make some changes. I omitted celery since we don't care for it and added about a cup of shredded cheese, a Tbsp each of dill relish and jalapeno relish, half a small can of sliced water chestnuts, half a red bell pepper, and used dijon mustard. Put it all in a food processor and processed the heck out of it. Results, a creamy, slightly crunchy, slightly spicy spread that turned out really tasty.

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LEE51

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Central, South Carolina, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 18, 2009

This was my first venture into making ham salad and it was very good. Most importantly, it was easy to make!

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Torii

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Reviewed: Jan. 11, 2009

This recipe was good. My husband does not like celery so I did sub celery seed instead otherwise it turned out great!

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BusyBwith3

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Home Town: Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA

Living In: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 9, 2009

Delicious! I made it with slightly more than 1/2 cup of light mayo instead of the regular and left out the egg. Loved it and will make again!! Thank you!

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Luv2BakeGirl

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Living In: New Palestine, Indiana, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 6, 2009

My husband loved this ( I am not a fan not the recipie I just don't like this stuff)I miss read and added 2 tbl onion could not tell it was "too much" I will make this again for my husband

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Melissa

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Living In: Mundelein, Illinois, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 4, 2009

Tasty!!! I did add approx 3/4-1 T. of chopped jalepeno in food processer when chopping onions. Gave it just tiny bit of bite I like. Also used this with leftover turkey/chicken. Fantastic!!!

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MARYG

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Living In: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 3, 2009

Very tasty and easy to make. Great use of leftover ham. Kids did not eat it though, not a surprise.

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Michelle

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Northfield, Vermont, USA

Living In: University Place, Washington, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 2, 2009

Very good recipe! My husband made this using the food processor to do all of the chopping--first doing the ham--and then doing the celery, onion and egg together. We used this on toasted homemade rye bread with a little lettuce and it made awesome sandwiches!! Thanks for posting this recipe as it be a regular in our home!

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Amy

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Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2009

Love it! Excellent use of leftover ham, I think next time I will add an extra egg. Very easy, I just dumped everything (except the wet ingredients) into my food processor and let it rip! Thank you!

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ALICIAJOY

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Home Town: Kenai, Alaska, USA

Living In: Anchorage, Alaska, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2009

My family is crazy about this ham salad, I highly recommend it! You can tweak it to your own tastes and it still comes out great!

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Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2009

very easy to make and taste great! We like it sweet so we added more relish and used Miracle Whip.

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Julia

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Home Town: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Living In: Tucson, Arizona, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 29, 2008

I made this with leftover ham and used dill pickles relish and honey mustard. Very tasty!

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Shelandi

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Home Town: Beavercreek, Ohio, USA

Living In: Glen Burnie, Maryland, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 29, 2008

Great! I didn't measure the ingredients, but I know I had more ham, so I used more mayo and mustard, and I used dill relish instead of sweet. The only negative thing about this, and it is just a nit-picky thing, is the color. It turned a strange shade of pink/gray. I've made ham salad before and not had that problem, so perhaps it was just the ham or something this time. Despite that little thing, I would make this again in a heartbeat. We had it on sandwiches, and all of us enjoyed it, especially our young children. Thanks so much!!

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crunchymama

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Reviewed: Dec. 28, 2008

This was my first attempt at making ham salad, and it came out great! I never would have thought to add a hard boiled egg, but it works! I did the whole thing in my food processor, and it couldn't have been easier.

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ShariV

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Home Town: Rochester, New York, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2008

followed recipe. Added xtra relish, less mayo. Tastes good w/out egg too but I like it better with. 11 old son does not like it with egg at all!!!but then, he doesnt like eggs

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Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2008

This was awesome! We had an 8 lb ham for Christmas and ham sandwiches were getting old LOL! We stuck to the ingredients in the recipe, but we doubled everything from the mayonnaise to the celery and egg! We kept it to 3 cups of ham and we chopped it up in several batches in the food processor. It's the egg that truly makes it and I was surprised it didn't need any salt or pepper to taste! What a great way to stretch your ham in these tough economic times! Thanks for the recipe Marcella, this is a keeper!

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ARCELI6

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Home Town: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Living In: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

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Reviewed: Nov. 30, 2008

I left out the egg and added another tablespoon of pickle relish - as this is what my husband prefers. I served on Walnut wheat bread (Kirkland's) with romaine lettuce. I served these with ham and potato soup on thanksgiving and it stole the show.

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Reviewed: Nov. 3, 2008

This ham salad is very tasty. The only difference from the original recipe was no egg, and several dashes of liquid smoke, just because I was curious about what it would add to the recipe. It did enhance it a bit, however, this is a five star recipe as is. Thanks

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