Kitchen

[Campion]

You're welcome, Sweetbay. Wasn't Watergate Salad pistachio instant pudding, marshmallows and pineapple? Kind of a riff on ambrosia (marshmallows, mandarin oranges, pineapple and coconut?) Yeah, Mom made that too, Ah, the Sixties.

I make a strawberry pie by putting strawberry jello together with thinly sliced strawberries (a bit of sugar on them, sometimes they are sour) and Cool-Whip. Let the jello slush up, whip in the Cool Whip and the strawberries and pour it into a premade baked pie shell and let it gel in the fridge. You can brush the pie crust with strawberry jam if you are afraid of it weeping.

And I make a trifle which I can't make too often as I will just eat it and eat it. You douse any kind of yellow cake (I use sponge) with sherry. Then you pour slushy jello with berries (I like strawberry or raspberries) and let it set hard. Then you top it with cooled Jello Custard (not solid but not too warm or it will melt.) After that solidifies, you put Cool Whip on top.

[vabreeze]

On 8/9/2014 violann said:

On 8/8/2014 Kay SD said: I remember a jello salad people would bring to pot luck meals, with lime jello, crushed pineapple and small curd cottage cheese. Anyone else remember this one?

OHIO!!!! EXCEPT, ours was not cottage cheese but cream cheese and walnuts and cool whip and lime jello and pineapple. DIVINE! And I have to add, we always made it in small or large fancy Tupperware molds, and it looked VERY pretty!!

We had something similar. In our lime jello, we used canned pear halves stuffed with cherry juice-colored cream cheese with maraschino cherries on top. Yes, a very elegant dessert or salad served on lettuce leaves! I haven't had this in decades.

[qualitygal]

On 8/9/2014 Campion said:

You're welcome, Sweetbay. Wasn't Watergate Salad pistachio instant pudding, marshmallows and pineapple? Kind of a riff on ambrosia (marshmallows, mandarin oranges, pineapple and coconut?) Yeah, Mom made that too, Ah, the Sixties.

I make a strawberry pie by putting strawberry jello together with thinly sliced strawberries (a bit of sugar on them, sometimes they are sour) and Cool-Whip. Let the jello slush up, whip in the Cool Whip and the strawberries and pour it into a premade baked pie shell and let it gel in the fridge. You can brush the pie crust with strawberry jam if you are afraid of it weeping.

And I make a trifle which I can't make too often as I will just eat it and eat it. You douse any kind of yellow cake (I use sponge) with sherry. Then you pour slushy jello with berries (I like strawberry or raspberries) and let it set hard. Then you top it with cooled Jello Custard (not solid but not too warm or it will melt.) After that solidifies, you put Cool Whip on top.

Pistachio! That's what I didn't remember! Thanks.

I love that so many others have memories of these desserts. Good ones too!!

[Theoriginallacey]

On 8/8/2014 HonnyBrown said:

On 8/8/2014 stilltamn8r said:

fresh papaya and fresh pineapple contain Papain and Bromelain, enzymes that will "eat" and dissolve the proteins in gelatin which make them gel...They should never be used- use canned instead..

This is why papain and bromelain are used in meat tenderizers...

Great info, thank you!!!!

I agree! I love Jello, but not the sugar free so much.

[violann]

The pistachio pudding mix dessert is like an ambrosia. I never had the nerve to serve sweet salads as anything but desserts ( they REALLY are SWEET!) but I will tell you the truth, if they were put out for a buffet, they were often the first thing eaten, before meat or meat salads or even before rolls and butter. Lovely memories.

[Sooner]

I wish some of these things would make a comeback. Some were AWFUL, but there were some good ones and some superb tomato aspic dishes!