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Cold Plates

Old fashion cold plates made up of cold salads, leftover chicken, cold cuts and so much more.

5.04 ratings
Prep
1 hr
Cook
30 min
Makes
3
Serves
6 people
This recipe is in my cookbook What's for Supper?
Traditional Newfoundland Cold Plates

About this recipe

Traditional Newfoundland Cold Plates
Bright pink beet salad

Hi and welcome to our website!

When I think of old fashion cold plates I think about my childhood, ever Sunday supper this was the meal we enjoyed and remembered.

We would have a plate of delicious homemade salads with leftover stuffing and salt beef, cold chicken and ham. Plus homemade cold salads!

My mom would make potato salads from the leftover potato from our Jiggs dinner it would have the flavours from all the vegetables and salt beef. Mmmmm So Good!

Of course you can’t go wrong with a macaroni salad we would have that as will, I don’t have it in this video but super easy to make, recipe posted below.

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I will share with our link to our cookbooks and please continue on to our recipe posted below!

https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook

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Our cookbooks, Traditional Newfoundland Cooking and Recipes and A Little Taste of Home.
Traditional Newfoundland Cold Plates
Mustard salad and beet salad with cold cuts.

Cold plate suppers is an old time meal that I’m sure everyone that lived in Newfoundland or is from Newfoundland and Labrador have had this meal more then once in a life time.

We would also have with this cold plate a jello salad, corn salad or whatever your mom would make to dress up the plate. Bread roll with margarine ” butter” and of course a piece of old Chedder cheese.

I’m sure there are many different salads that was made, like a plain white potato salad.

Also from dessert we would have homemade custard and jello.

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I have got a lot of requests for homemade cold plates over the years!

I hope you enjoy making these salads and I hope they bought back many fond memories of your childhood and growing up here in Newfoundland and Labrador or even visiting and having our traditional meals….

Traditional Newfoundland Cold Plates
Cold plateswith mustard salad, beet salad, coleslaw, tomato, iceberg lettuce, cheese, turkey roll and ham.

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The recipeCold Plates

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Mustard Salad

TOPPING for SALAD

Beet Potato Salad

Cold Slaw

Macaroni Salad

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Mustard Salad

  1. In a medium boil half full of water, add peeled potatoes chopped in cubes, onion cut in half, celery and sea salt. Let boil until potatoes are fork tended.

  2. When boiled drain water off, return potatoes to boiler then toss onion and celery.

  3. In a small boiler half full of water, add your eggs start the boil until hard boiled. Then peel eggs add one egg to the potato pot and the other slice and set aside.

  4. Start mashing your potatoes then add butter and cream, mash until combined. Then add mustard and vinegar, sugar continue mashing, then with a large spoon mix in miracle whip or mayonnaise until creamy.

  5. Then put all your mustard potato salad in a large bowl.

  6. In a small bowl mix together yellow mustard and miracle whip or mayonnaise until all combined.

  7. Spread mixture over top of salad then top with your sliced eggs, place in your fridge until cool then ready to serve.

Beet Salad

  1. In a medium boiler half full of water, add your peeled potatoes cut them in pieces for faster boiling time and your medium peeled onion cut in half, celery and sea salt.

  2. Let boil until fork tender then drain water off and return your potatoes to the same boiler, remove onion and celery from boiler and toss.

  3. Mash in beet juice and sugar until all combined.

  4. In another small boiler add your two eggs half full of water and let boil until hard boil, about 5-10 minutes.

  5. When cooked peel and add one in with your mashed potatoes and continue mashing together. The other egg cut in slices and set aside until needed.

  6. Then with a large spoon start mixing in miracle whip or mayonnaise until creamy. Then add your cup of chopped beets and foiled in with salad until all combined.

  7. Then in a large glass bowl add your salad after place your sliced egg pieces on top, sprinkle with some paprika seasoning, then put in your fridge until nice and cold.

Coleslaw

  1. In a medium bowl with lid, shred cabbage and carrot together and toss.

  2. In a small bowl mix together all of your other ingredients.

  3. Then toss dressing in with cabbage and carrot mixture toss together and more of any ingredients if needed, refrigerate until ready to serve.

Macaroni Salad

  1. Half full a medium boiler with water and pinch of sea salt let it come to a boil, after add your macaroni "elbow noodles " let boil until tender.

  2. When boiled strain water off and put noodles in a glass bowl or bowl with lid.

  3. In a small bowl start making your dressing, add miracle whip, mustard, vinegar, sugar, relish and pinch of salt and pepper. Mix together and put on top of macaroni and toss together.

  4. Grate onion over top or onion seasoning and then chop cheese, ham, and green pepper and toss in with the macaroni noodles. Taste the mixture if you need to had more pepper or salt this is a good time to do so, toss everything together.

  5. After all ingredients are mixed in put macaroni salad in the fridge until ready to serve.

  6. Remember when making any salad you can add any vegetables or instead of ham you can use tuna, salmon or any other meat to this mixture. You should make it your own for best results.

  7. Prep-time: 15 Minutes Cook time: 15-20 Minutes Let cool in fridge until ready to serve.

  8. By request I added a macaroni salad to this list but it's not on the video, I hope this is helpful.

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Allergens
  • Egg
  • Milk
  • Mustard
  • Wheat

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    1. Cindy Pollett

      would you be able to tell me how much of each kind of potato salad I need to make cold plates for 100 people Thank you in advance\

      1. Bonita

        Hi Cindy: Thank you for your message and I’m sorry I just seen your message. The cold plates you are making for 100 people are you going to serve them or would it be self serve. The reason for that question when people self serve their selfs they take more of one thing or the other. If you serve the plates and prepare them yourself you have more control over what you need and how much to put on a plate. Did you see the cold plate video I have there showing you the amount to serve. If so another question are you having more then one potato salad, and what types were you making.
        Our recipes are for about 8 people per serving.
        So if you are making two potato salads for 100 people you will need, 1 potato to two scoops off salad, so 50 potatoes or 50 pounds bag of potatoes for one scoop of potato per plate.
        If you are making a cole slaw and macaroni salad, etc.
        Usually you would have two small scoops of salad per plate and then other sides.
        If you need any more help email me at [email protected] and I will see your message quicker, all the best and enjoy.
        Bonita

    2. Rosalind Walsh

      Hi Bonita,
      I didn’t realize I was making NFLD cold plates for at least 50 years. I was born in St John’s in 1946 and experienced all the foods of the era from a Scottish warbride mother and NFLD father. His mother said to him, do you realize your wife doesn’t know how to cook. He replied, Mom I didn’t marry her for her cooking.
      She had lots of help from her mother in law and did a great job of cooking all the NFLD favourites for her 5 children, even seal flippers ! Her brother in law , a fisherman delivered big salmon to our door which she stuffed and we ate on Fridays and even on Wednesdays. Lobster was a regular meal as everyone had them in the 50’s.
      Now we all live on the west coast and I still make cold plates. I hope to visit again one day in the near future. Forever a Newfoundlander !

      Merry Christmas,
      Rosalind

      1. Hi Rosalind: Thank you for your message and for visiting our website, your story was so lovely and I guess live and learn they say. This is a meal I’m sure every Newfoundlander and Labradorian made mostly on Sundays and for suppers. We didn’t have lobster or Salmon much it wasn’t something we had in younger years but I love it now, have a wonderful day and Merry Christmas to you and yours, and Happy New year. 🙂 Bonita

    3. Pamela Marshall

      Just found this website and I’m so excited! I too, am an “old school” cook, and I thrive on the tradition of food. It is quite literally, what memories are made of. Using what was cheap, and at hand was the only choice for many large Maritime families, such as mine! Thank you for taking the time to write it down for those generations coming after us. Tried two of your recipes today and they are great! Looking forward to many more! Well done!

      1. Hi Pamela: Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a message, we are so glad to help. Our website is made up of me and my husband and help from our two sons. We have been sharing traditional and non-traditional recipes sense June 2014, this is our retirement plan. We love bringing those recipe to everyone for that reason to keep our culture alive and for when our grandkids get older they can just pull up a recipe anytime to enjoy. Have a wonderful day and take care, feel free to share any recipe or subscribe to our youtube channel. 🙂 Bonita

    4. Angela

      Sorry never rated the first review but you deserve 5 Stars and more

      1. Bonita

        Haha thats ok we are so happy you are enjoying our recipes and thats is five star enough., 🙂 Bonita

    5. Angela

      Love all your recipes KEEP IT UP

      1. Bonita

        Hi Angela: Thank you so much for your message and for enjoying our website, our recipe are simple to follow and the video just makes it a little easier. 🙂 Bonita

    6. Rose Warren

      Hi Bonita!
      I’m a Newfie living near Stratford, ON.
      Get homesick quite often, want homemade traditional recipes.
      Found your videos on YouTube.
      Thanks so much for doing this.
      Rose Warren
      from Herring Neck, NWI, Notre Dame Bay, NL

      1. Hi Rose: You are very welcome, and thank you for visiting my website and enjoying our videos and recipe from good old Newfoundland. This was one of our reasons for starting our channel, to give my fellow Newfoundlanders access to their childhood recipes. I do have some non traditional on our site but they are by request from viewers all over the would. I remember living in northern canada and not having access to ingredients for recipes and looking for pudding recipes or christmas recipes and not having a computer to go to thats back in the day. But now having the access to social media have gave us more access to our cultural meals. Please subscribe to my youtube channel and each week I post a new video you will get a notification letting you know and its free. Enjoy Bonita

    7. Love watching you doing your many recipes. What kind of potatoes do you prefer for your salads. Keep up the wonderful work.

      1. Bonita

        Hi May: Thank you so much for your message and visiting my website, I’m glad you are enjoying my channel. I like using white potatoes because they are more dry, but red potatoes make delicious salads as well and they are little sweeter. I hope that helps, Thanks Bonita

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