Cole Slaw (vinegar based)
Cabbage is a weekly staple at the food bank and it is easily turned into Cole Slaw providing you have a way to slice it or cut it. There are two major ways of preparing Cabbage for the cole slaw.
One is to halve the cabbage and then slice it, preferably on a meat slicing machine from the inside out. This yields those long strings of shredded cabbage. The other method is to cut it up into blocks and feed it into a food processor or blender to make the 'slaw' that is a fine grind, and usually used in slaws with creamy dressings. This recipe uses an oil and vinegar based, dressing. Cole slaw is essentially a salad using cabbage and vinegar and oil.
The best place I ever found to make a large batch of cole slaw was in the stainless steel kitchen sink. One must first clean out the sink with a disinfectant cleaner, then rinse it out thoroughly, then wash it down again in a solution of vinegar and water. Ensuring the drain stopper is also very clean. Then you shred the cabbage into the sink until half full, and dig in with your hands mixing all the ingredients. (Make sure you wear gloves if you are feeding other people and ensure your hands are washed clean before doing so with a good soap).
This recipe makes enough to fill a 4 gallon plastic pails. Such pails are available at the supermarket as they are used to transport bulk prepared salads for their display cases.
List of Ingredients
- 2 cabbage (needed)
- 10 carrots (needed)
- 1 cup sugar (needed)
- 2 Tbs onion salt (needed)
- 3 tsp black pepper (needed)
- 1 1/2 cup white vinegar (needed)
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil (needed)
Instructions
- Slice cabbage in half and put on meat slicer large side down, slicing entire cabbage into 'slaw'. If meat slicer is unavailable, use a food processor.
- My food processor has a 'spout' and I aim it into my sink as I shred the cabbage. Cut up cabbage into chunks that will fit the feed tube and shred entire cabbage into sink (excluding heel)
- Shred carrots in a food processor and add to sink. Add sugar, vinegar, onion salt, oil, and pepper to carrot, cabbage mixture.
- DIG IN with your hands and begin to mix the batch around, have fun! Toss it about here and there, but try not to get any arm hairs in it. Limit the depth of your mixing to your wrists.
- You may stop and taste a clump to see if it is to your satisfaction. If it is not, add more salt, pepper, vinegar or sugar, as much as you prefer. When the taste is just right, remove clumps of slaw with your two hands and toss into a plastic pail or a very large soup tureen. Cover and refrigerate.
Final Comments
You can also add onions, green peppers, whatever you prefer to this 'salad'. I have limited the ingredients to a basic carrot cabbage mixture. You could just use cabbage itself and add a creamier dressing like some fried chicken chains do.
*OPTIONAL* For a different flavour, add some mustard to the above recipe.
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