My Bama's Chopped Sour Cream Potatoes
 

My Bama's Chopped Sour Cream Potatoes
***The sour cream mentioned here is homemade from old-fashioned cream-on-the-top whole milk which is very difficult to find in many states these days. Our current commercial sour cream just does not taste the same in this recipe.***

4 large potatoes baked, chopped into ½” dice
1& ½ pints of sour cream stirred til ‘soupy’
A small bit of milk/cream if needed for above
Minced onion
Salt and pepper

Stir minced onion into sour cream.
Put potatoes into buttered baking dish and cover with sour cream.
Season generously with salt and pepper.
Try topping with a bit of shredded sharp cheddar cheese.
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes until browned and bubbly.

Jan in VA

This sounds fantastic!!!

Jan, try substituting plain Greek yogurt for 1/4 of the sour cream. It does work. (Just read the label carefully, some places, Safeway for example, put sugar in the plain yogurt.) I learned that lesson one day when I put it on a baked potato, yech!

Thanks, have done that, but NOTHING beats the taste of that old-fashioned soured cream from whole milk for me. :)
Jan in VA

How do you sour your cream? My mother used to make buttermilk but it was so long ago I don't remember how. Same with sour cream.

She stirred in a hint of lemon juice and left the cream covered on top of the old refrigerator on the shaded screened in porch for 2-3 days til it was the right consistency.

Jan in VA

Sounds absolutely delicious Jan! THANKS for sharing.

Your potatoes sound great. I can still remember the taste of the cream on top of the milk when I spent 10 days with my gma and her brother on his farm. He milked his 3-4 cows and grandma would take that cream and make butter with it in the mixer. Those were the days. We were trying to help him get back on track after his wife died. Tell you what come 8:00 p.m. I was in bed and out like a light.

Amazing some of the memories we have! I grew up on a farm where my dad milked the cows by hand. After putting the milk in gallon jugs, the cream rose to the top of the whole milk. My mom made butter from her "collection" of cream from several days' worth of milk.

Yum...thanks for sharing...

Thanks. I am going to try it. I *think* my mother used white vinegar if she ran completely out of buttermilk. Best I remember she used about a cup of buttermilk and added milk to it and left it on the counter overnight, covered. I remember one time she bought buttermilk and used some of it as a starter. At least I think I remember that. I think it is so sad to see all of the "tips and tricks" being lost. My mother was a great cook. The food tasted a lot different (better) back then too. You always seem to have so many of the old ways to do things. I feel like I am listening to and watching my mother. I married young and didn't have kids, and hubby only eats 4 meals, so I didn't cook a lot and have lost so much of what I learned. Have you ever thought of writing a cookbook or a tips book? I think you would be great at it. You could include pics of your quilts and tips for quilting. :)