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Chopped Raw Vegetable Slaw

Recipe No. 439 from the U.S. Army's WWII cookbook — Salads. Quantities are exactly as printed, for 100 servings; a scaled-down 8-serving version is in the notes.

Army TM10-412 · Salad

Serves 22 pounds, 100 servings, five mess kit spoons (3½ ounces) each.

Recipe No. 439 from the U.S. Army’s WWII cookbook — Salads. Quantities are exactly as printed, for 100 servings; a scaled-down 8-serving version is in the notes.

Ingredients

  • Cabbage, shredded — 9 pounds (9 No. 56 dippers)
  • Carrots, chopped — 9 pounds (7½ No. 56 dippers)
  • Radishes, chopped — 12 bunches
  • Cucumbers, chopped — 3 pounds (1½ No. 56 dippers)
  • Salt — 1½ ounces (3 mess kit spoons)

Pepper — ¼ ounce (1 mess kit spoon)

  • French or other dressing — 1 quart (1 No. 56 dipper)

Directions

  1. Combine cabbage, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, salt, and pepper; mix well.
  2. Serve with French or other dressing (recipes Nos. 459 to 484).

Notes

SCALED TO 8 SERVINGS (the original is ÷12.5): Cabbage, shredded — 11½ oz Carrots, chopped — 11½ oz Radishes, chopped — 1 bunches Cucumbers, chopped — 3¾ oz Salt — about ¾ tsp Pepper — a pinch French or other dressing — 5 tbsp

— TM 10-412, Army Recipes (War Department, 15 August 1944), recipe No. 439, Salads. Army measures: 1 No. 56 dipper = 1 qt; 1 No. 55 dipper = 1¾ qt; 1 mess kit cup = 1½ pints.