Homemade Coleslaw Recipe - The Hillbilly Kitchen

This is the story of why my Great Granny Adeline made Chopped coleslaw for years...

For a long time she never owned a grater of any kind, she only had her trusty knife. The same knife that saved her and her daughter, my granny Fay, one fateful night in the mountains of north Georgia.

On that night they were returning home from picking berries. They had been picking most of the day and they had their share of cuts and scratches on their arms and legs from reaching into the thorny bushes and walking through thickets. They didn't wear pants back in those days, they wore dresses.

My great granny's hearing had been failing due to a disease she had so she didn't hear the occasional rustling in the brush behind them that granny Fay kept hearing, which made her whirl around from time to time to investigate.

It was about a two mile walk back to Adeline's shanty and they were both nearing exhaustion already from the long walk and from being exposed to the heat when they were on the bald where they had been most of the day.

Granny Fay was just about to whirl around once again and investigate the noises coming from behind them when she was violently knocked to the ground in an instant by a 400 pound black bear who had been stalking them, causing her to hurl the entire basket of berries and spill them all over the ground! My great granny Adeline let out a rebel yell and leaped on the back of the charging bear that had just attacked her daughter. She hung onto the long hair on the bear's back for dear life. The bear was growling and bucking like a bull trying to throw her off. Granny Fay regained her footing and picked up a stout looking stick and she started beating the tar out of the bear, with several of her strikes hitting the bear right square in the face.

Great granny Adeline was wearing down faster than the bear was. It was getting increasingly harder to hang on and ride the bear. Granny Fay could see her mom's fatigue building by the expression on her face. She knew if she didn't do something fast to help, her mom would be tossed from the back of the rampaging bear and they would both be eaten alive.

She scoured the ground looking for her mom's knife which had been in the basket with the berries before it was all flung to the ground. Great granny Adeline was still screaming like a banshee, hanging on with her left hand while she pounded on the bucking bear with her right fist.

And then...granny found the knife and not a minute too soon. In an act of sheer desperation she threw the knife directly at her mom who caught it, in flight, by the handle. The bear growled ferociously and reared up on it's hind legs. He must have measured 10 feet tall!

Great granny Adeline hung on and let out a scream that could be heard all the way back to her shanty as she buried the knife all the way to the hilt into the back of the bear's neck. With this, the bear fell straight to the ground and never moved again.

They were overjoyed that they killed the bear. The berries were scattered everywhere and they didn't bother to try to pick them up. Both of them tried to pull the knife from the bear, but great granny Adeline plunged it in so deep that it couldn't be retrieved.

Granny Fay knew that her mom couldn't afford a new knife, so later on that same week she earned two dollars shucking corn for a few of the neighboring farmers. She got a ride into town with Preacher Phillips, who had the only truck around and she bought her mom a four piece cooking set which came with a shiny new knife and also a grater. From that day forward, great granny Adeline grated her coleslaw.....Samantha

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