I mentioned canned coleslaw yesterday and several folks said they would like more information about it.
Our family has really enjoyed it for the last two years and I’ve added it to my list of must haves when it comes to putting up food.
I found the recipe on this site.
Most often we eat the slaw straight out of the jar, but I’ve also drained it and added a little mayonnaise. We like it that way too.
Eaten straight out of the jar the coleslaw has a sweet pickle taste that goes well as a side for most any supper. We love slaw on our hotdogs and canned coleslaw straight from the jar works well for that too.
The first year I made it I was curious to see if the cabbage stayed crisp. It does. Even after sitting on the shelf for several months the cabbage still has a real crunch to it.
The recipe makes five pints. After realizing how well we liked it I doubled the recipe last summer and this summer I will likely triple it.
I always worry more about how things taste than how they look, but the canned coleslaw is awful pretty sitting on my canning shelves.
You can watch me can coleslaw here.
Last night’s video: Family History and Stories of Opal Corn Myers 3.
Tipper
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My Mother made frozen coleslaw. Much like this it was easy to pull out and have ready but you had to make sure to give it plenty of time to thaw!!
Definitely going to try it this year! Hopefully with homegrown cabbages, but if I have to buy from the farmers market, I will just to do this cole slaw. Thanks for the great looking recipe! ❤️
Tipper I have never canned coleslaw before. I didn’t even know you could. I will for sure now. We absolutely love coleslaw so I will be canning it this year. Thanks.
Miss Tipper I made that recipe last fall and you are right, it is so good. It will be a staple in my pantry from now on. I’ve yet to try it with some mayonnaise but I have a bit of it in jar in the fridge and I’m going to try that today.
I’ve tried many of your recipes and they are ALWAYS good.
Have a great weekend,
TeresaSue
I have been canning coleslaw per recipe instructions for 4 years now. I can both green and purple cabbage however the purple cabbage tends to dye everything in the jar to its color. We don’t mind. Fresh from the jar the cabbage is crisp. I will sometimes drain a jar and warm in a skillet with Polish sausage which makes for a nice meal. Canned coleslaw is a staple in our pantry. We plant our cabbage in raised beds which keeps Peter Cottontail from nibbling on our plants. We sure enjoy gardening and preserving our goods. Blessings to Granny and your family.
I would really like to try my hand at making this because my husband could eat coleslaw every day of the week. It sure does look pretty in the jar with all of the colors. We both love it on our hotdogs, hamburgers and it’s always so good as a side with fish and barbequed ribs. I can see him eating it straight out of the jar. I don’t know if it would even make it to the table:)
canned coleslaw, I bet that would be magnificent, what a great idea, I wonder where I could purchase some of that? have a great day God bless you very much
I had never heard of anyone canning coleslaw until I read your post. Mom made the best slaw but never canned it. She added some diced cucumbers and tomatoes
and never called it coleslaw, just slaw. The last time I planted cabbage, I went to the garden to find 12 stems stripped clean of anything that resembled a leaf. The same varmint that ate my cabbage also foundered on my entire bed of sweet potato slips. I gave up trying to raise some vegetables and just buy them at the farmer’s market.
I am taken in by your lovely Cole slaw that I will bet the farm look beautiful on a shelf of canned bounty, but I KNOW in my heart that Cole slaw is delicious just like you say it is! The recipe is straight forward and I think very easy (in light of canning in general like pinto or black beans or meats which will wear a body out.) I can see this being entered in a fair and winning! I’ve got a banana bread recipe I’m pretty certain would place in competition. Yep-I’m competitive and like to give a good run for the money!!! Everybody likes to win, but I like a challenge and sometimes riding to the challenge or race makes me a winner-just getting in there and going for it! Tipper, I will “expect” you or the girls at the NC state fair or a county fair soon! Lol and much love!!! Life participation makes us all winners! Gods blessings to granny and the folks still with loved ones unaccounted for (buried alive) and those in tents and campers and unfixed homes in these freezing temperatures! I’d like to load up EVETY POLITICIAN AND COP ( no guns or beating sticks or tazers) AND SEND THEM TO GROUND ZERO IN NC WITH THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS AND A DOLLAR IN QUARTERS AND TELL THEM TO GET STEPPING AND MAKE IT THE BEST WAY THEY CAN!!! I’d predict they’d ALL be crying by sunset…
Canned coleslaw is such a good idea, and it sounds delicious. I would like to can some jars but I’m not sure if I could grow the cabbage. My husband and I probably will only plant a few tomato plants this year because we are unable to take care of a garden. Last season the deer ate everything we planted. I still may try to grow the cabbage, I’ll have to wait and see if my husband can rototill some of the garden. His arthritis has been acting up and is limited what he can do.
Canning coleslaw is on my to do list this year. One of my favorite meals is meatloaf, soup beans, coleslaw and cornbread! Thanks for sharing again!
Everyone have a great day!
Sounds great! I love coleslaw. I was an adult before I found out the spelling was coleslaw and not Cold Slaw lol!
I intended on making canned coleslaw last year after watching your video on how to and also every time it made an appearance at supper time in your house but with my memory being what is is (or maybe I should say what it isn’t) I never remembered my plan–hopeful this year I will actually get it made. I am enjoying the book you are reading out of–it makes me wish I had watched the show Christy when it aired. I remember it but I also remember thinking that the bits and pieces I saw were not interesting or at all real to life lol little did I know.
Gaylia – go to YouTube..begin with episode 1. Enjoy!
Until I saw you canning Cole slaw I’d never heard of such a thing. I couldn’t let it go, so last fall I canned up a double batch & it’s almost gone. My DH prefers it w/the mayonnaise. So that’s how I fix it for him. I keep out some for me straight from the jar. I have no taste/smell but I love the texture & enjoy eating it. I served some of each for a family gathering & everyone loved it, couldn’t believe it came from a jar. I sure is pretty in the jar. I plan on putting up more this come year.
I do enjoy Cole slaw and love the idea of being able to just grab a jar from the shelf ready to eat.
Tipper, I made this recipe last summer when I found the video. It is delicious! I made a double batch and when I take it to gatherings it’s licked clean. One gathering they are it on tortilla scoop chips and I admit it was really good. The chips were a tad salty and the sweetness of the slaw was really good with it. I will definitely make more this year! Thanks for sharing!
I had never heard of canning coleslaw until Tipper mentioned it, I have only ate “fresh made.” Yesterday some of the comments were about deer and the problems they cause with having a garden. Ron mentioned a list of garden problems. He also mentioned a fence for keeping the deer out, unless it at least 10 ft high, save your money and forget about it, I have a fence about 7 ft high and they jump it without a bit of trouble. Last night just before dark I counted ten in a small pasture less than a quarter mile from home. Thursday there were five in my neighbors front yard at noontime. I haven’t seen a rabbit all winter. Some of the ones around here have been using electric wire, they put one strand around their garden and back away about 4 ft, and run another strand. My sweet potato friend that also grows other produce items played a radio in his garden last year at night tuned to a talk station. He said that helped as much as anything. I know deer are the bread and butter for the SCDNR and for other states but at what cost to the public. Around Christmas I read of a deer being hit by one car and going airborne before going through the windshield of another car killing a mother and her 9 year old daughter, I have never heard of a rabbit or other forgotten about small game doing this. A dead deer on the side of the road usually means a tore up car. Because of the deer and the hot dry summers of the last several years I don’t plan on planting more than a few tomato plants. It is no longer worth it just for me and my son. I put 5 ft high cages made out of cement reinforcement wire around my tomato plants and the deer can’t get to them. A game warden told me this a few years ago when I talked to him about the deer problem “ the only sure fire cure for a deer problem is lead poison dispersed through the barrel of a rifle.”