Posted on 08/11/2022 11:32:30 AM PDT by mylife
The best coleslaw I’ve ever had is Dolly Parton’s. Okay, Dolly has never personally made me coleslaw or been a guest at any potlucks I’ve attended. But her method for the popular cookout side—which appears in the book Dollywood Presents Tennessee Mountain Home Cooking—is truly spectacular.
The book was published in 1989, and is authored by “the Dollywood Family,” employees at the Dollywood theme park. It’s filled with photos of young Dolly and classic Southern recipes, including chicken and dumplings, apple stack cake, and banana pudding, with credits to the employees the recipes came from. While there isn’t much text, flipping through the cookbook feels like a warm, comforting hug. But the bright, refreshing coleslaw is one of a few recipes in the book that comes from the Queen of Country herself.
Dressed in a punchy, acerbic mixture of white vinegar, pickle juice, and mayonnaise, Dolly’s slaw manages to be creamy, sweet, sour, and salty all at once. Pickle-forward slaw is genius: It’s a side salad and a sandwich topping in one.
Dolly’s recipe calls for chopped green or purple cabbage and onion, grated carrot, diced red bell pepper, and minced dill pickle. If you don’t have a jar of pickles on hand, Dolly recommends using pickle relish. To make the salad, you simply have to toss all the vegetables in a bowl with one part pickle juice, one part white vinegar, and four parts mayonnaise, and season with a touch of granulated sugar, salt, and black pepper. It’s a formula so simple you could memorize it, and it can be made all in one bowl—you don’t even have to whisk the dressing together in a separate vessel.
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Pickle juice is good for lots of stuff. In 1964 I worked the grill at McDonalds and we used drain-off from the pickle cans (from the pickles we put on burgers) to scrap and clean the grills... It worked surprisingly well.
she means add dill and white vinegar to the mayonaise.
Looks good!
Enjoy. If you want a thicker sauce or less of it, skip or eliminate the condensed chicken soup.
Gotcha , thanks again!
LOL. For what it’s worth, I eat every pepper on the planet EXCEPT those nasty green ones. Thanks.
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