St. Phillips Church Social Coleslaw
by 👩🍳 Cooking With a Southern Vibe in Music City USA 👩🍳, September 08, 2013
Old fashioned church socials have the best food. Every summer we go to a local Parish for their wonderful summer social, and this year was no exception. My son and his wife were visiting, and he just loved the coleslaw. And because church ladies are so congenial, they shared the recipe with me. This is a keeper, it's different because it's vinegar and sugar based, but has no oil. If you use Splenda instead of sugar, you don't lose any of the taste, but it takes away the calories. It keeps well in the fridge, too, in fact, it's better after it sits for a few hours. I jar mine up in a Ball wide mouth quart jar, I do love those Ball jars... ~ Jan
I tweaked the original recipe a bit, I used pre bagged coleslaw mix, so I had to adjust the liquids.
1 bag coleslaw mix
1/2 green pepper, chopped (I used food processor)
2 carrots, chopped (food processor again, let the machine do the work :-)
4 chopped green onions (food processor)
1/4 cup chopped celery (food processor)
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Mix together:
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup sugar or Splenda
1 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 heaping teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon salt
Stir all together until sugar or Splenda dissolves and pour over coleslaw mixture. It wilts down after a few minutes, this is enough dressing for the entire bag of coleslaw mix.