Correct Cole Slaw
by Robert Zimmerman
posted: May 29, 2012
A great many recipes for Southern Cole Slaw can be found on the intertubes. If you happen to be reading this one, then you have arrived at the one that is actually correct. Before the reveal, there are a few important points regarding cole slaw that need to be understood and put to memory.
1. Cole slaw is never to be eaten as a side dish
2. Cole slaw is placed on top of either a hot dog or bar bq
3. Cole slaw is never to be co-mingled with ketchup
There are a few more obvious points that may as well be stated. Cole slaw contains mayonnaise. Anyone trying to pass off cole slaw that does not contain mayonnaise should be reported to the Bureau of Balogny and there-after avoided. To put a finer point on it, cole slaw contains Duke's Mayonnaise. If you can not purchase Duke's Mayonnaise where you live then abandoning all hope is probably your best option. Either that, or moving to somewhere that has Duke's Mayonnaise.
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The following is 100% correct
What you need:
One Cabbage
One smallish carrot
1/4 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 cup of Duke's Mayonnaise
1/4 cup of whole miilk
1/4 cup of butter milk
1 1/2 tablespoons of white vinegar
2 1/2 tablespoons of lemon juice
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What to do exactly:
Take everything that is not a carrot or a cabbage and mix them up. These ingredients need to get to know each other so they are going to sit there for a while. Stir them every so often so that they really get friendly. Do not try and rush this.
While the dressing is sitting there, chop up the cabbage into the smallest pieces you can. This will take a while. Keep chopping. If you think the cabbage is chopped enough, keep chopping. It will resemble a fine relish when correct.
Grate the carrot and throw that in with the cabbage.
Mix up everything and put it in the refridgerator for at LEAST two hours. There are important things happening in the refridgerator now and this can not be hurried. Give the slaw a stir every so often and return it to the fridge.
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Happiness on hot dogs or bar bg may now commence.
If placed on hot dogs, yellow mustard may be applied liberally to the dog before placing the slaw.
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