The next recipe I am making in my Jell-O journey is called Raspberry Jell-O Salad. I found it in one of my vintage metal recipe boxes inside a little 38 page booklet called Salad Treats. I don't know if it was a handmade version of a charity book or if a bunch of friends got … Continue reading Gelatin Diaries: Raspberry Jell-O Salad
My sister reminded me of 7 Up Salad just recently. I had completely forgotten that this congealed salad was served at our earliest family functions. I don't remember it much. I'm sure young me ate it but the exact components of the recipe alluded me. Why am I telling you all this? Well, my sister … Continue reading Gelatin Diaries: 7 Up Salad
This is the continuing saga of me trying to figure out the popularity of gelatin recipes from the 1920s to the 1970s. Each month, I randomly pick a recipe from a jar filled with the good, the bad and the savory gelatin recipes to see which ones were worth it and which ones should stay … Continue reading Gelatin Diaries: Avocado Strawberry Ring
This is the continuing saga of me trying to figure out the popularity of gelatin recipes from the 1920s to the 1970s. Each month, I randomly pick a recipe from a jar filled with the good, the bad and the savory gelatin recipes to see which ones were worth it and which ones should stay … Continue reading The Gelatin Diaries: Apple Cheese Salad
So today I learned a very important lesson in the power of words. Last month when I made the Jell-O vegetable salad, I mentioned that though this was my first savory Jell-O salad I pulled out of the jar that at least it wasn't yet the deviled egg mold. So of course the universe, who … Continue reading The Gelatin Diaries: Deviled Egg Mold
The day finally came..... Today is the day that I picked a savory gelatin salad out of the jar. Luckily (...sort of I guess) it was a simple salad that just mixes some raw veggies into the gelatin mixture that is flavored with vinegar and grated onion. So no crazy deviled egg or seafood gelatin … Continue reading The Gelatin Diaries: Vegetable Salad
The next installment in my gelatin journey was out of a 1950s Joys of Jello. This time I filled a jar with a whole bunch of different gelatin recipes to be chosen at random. I won't lie my heart was pounding a bit wondering if this will be the time I choose a chicken mousse … Continue reading The Gelatin Diaries: Ring Around The Fruit
In a blog post I posted when I first start Quaint Cooking, I wrote about how Jell-O and other gelatin based products didn't really play a huge part of my youth. I originally set a challenge to work my way through the 1970s The New Joys of Jell-O to see how I felt about Jell-O … Continue reading The Gelatin Diaries: Crested Jell-O Whips
Growing up my family was not a big Jell-O family. Sure my mother sometimes made the ever popular Jell-O jigglers (kids of the eighties know what I am talking about) and for an occasional treat there might have been Jell-O pudding cups in the fridge. On rare occasions a 7-Up salad would appear at family … Continue reading The New Joys of Jell-O
