Oh yes, butter and sugar sandwiches! My great grandmother, Nanny Kelly, used to babysit me when I was very small - from about age 3 to 5. I still remember how heavenly those sandwiches were. Two slices of white bread, thickly buttered, liberally laced with sugar, She served them on a saucer with beautiful pink roses.

My grandmother Mary (we called her Grandmary) passed down this recipe from her German grandmother, who came over fron East Saxony when she was fourteen years old. She went to live with her brother, who was already in the US. He ran a saloon in North Carolina, and put her to work there. She got pregnant, and he threw her out. She married a much older man (I don't know if it was the baby's father or not) who mistreated her badly, but he finally died. When my grandmother's mother died in childbirth, Grandmother Martin took her in along with her four siblings (their dad was a ne'er do well). She raised her daughter's children with the help of her eldest daughter, who lived at home and never married. They were dressmakers, and very talented too. But I digress - here's Grandmother Martin's recipe for German potato salad:

Boil and slice several potatoes (peel if you wish)
In the meantime, fry up a generous amount of bacon. Remove the bacon from the frying pan when it's crispy, and add chopped onion to the bacon grease and fry a bit. When the onion is translucent, add vinegar to the pan, and some sugar. Add the sliced potatoes and season to taste with salt, pepper and celery seed. Crumble the bacon over the potato salad, and serve warm.