Not necessarily. I hate sweet relish, but I love dill relish.
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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Not necessarily. I hate sweet relish, but I love dill relish.
Dukes mayo company now sells a slaw dressing in my Kroger stores. It makes pretty darned good slaw. Had some with some Bold Manwich the other day.
dukes is good
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NO to Anything with green bell peppers!
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Dill pickle relish. It’s a thing. I got it by mistake because I always get sweet pickle relish for my hot dogs.
Thanks. I’ve never seen dill relish.
and I drink pickle juice as well.
Thanks for posting
I wouldn’t use sweet but regular dill but that’s just me
One gal I knew put diced apples in - didn’t think it would work but the acid of the apples was great.
Not sure what apple 🍎🍏 she used.
Oh boy, I’ve had some of the best chow-chow I’ve ever had in my life recently. Found it at Benton Smoked Hams in Madisonville, TN (great smoked ham y’all). I couldn’t find any place on the internet to buy more of that chow-chow online, so determined that we would need to go back to Benton Hams to stock up. Turns out it was made by Mennonites and is sold at a Farmer’s Market in Delano, TN. It’s called Starr Mountain Cannery. If anyone’s ever up that way, you gotta go! So good!
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Cole slaw. That is what you get when the garbage disposal backs up.
Sounds great! I’d love to have the recipe with quantities if you’re willing to share.
hen I was a kid, I’d eat chow-chow all by itself like coleslaw.......................
Olive juice too 😁
Oh yes
Good on a ham sandwich too
Omg, are you my sibling?
There was a time in the 70s when things were pretty lean. We grew bell peppers to sell at the big farmer’s market in Atlanta when I was a kid. I used to joke that we had bell peppers with every meal, including as a topping for our Cheerios. It’s not far from the truth though we never did actually have them on our cereal. Mama cooked with them a lot, though. It took me nearly 50 years to be able to eat green bell peppers willingly.
I agree! It’s so good.
I put some celery seed in my coleslaw
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