Question on a cranberry dish

cookinfreak · ‎03-31-2010

Hi everyone. I want to make the Pioneer Womans recipe for Nans Cranberry salad. It calls for cranberry jello. I couldn't find it at the grocery store I was in last night, but will check another. If I can't find it, would raspberry or cherry jello work? The recipe includes crushed pineapple, canned whole cranberry sauce and the topping is cream cheese mixed with powdered sugar.

TIA

cookin

nomless · ‎03-10-2010

@cookinfreak wrote:
Hi everyone. I want to make the Pioneer Womans recipe for Nans Cranberry salad. It calls for cranberry jello. I couldn't find it at the grocery store I was in last night, but will check another. If I can't find it, would raspberry or cherry jello work? The recipe includes crushed pineapple, canned whole cranberry sauce and the topping is cream cheese mixed with powdered sugar.
TIA
cookin

Yes, you can use cherry or raspberry flavor. Or orange (orange is often added to cranberry dishes). You can use any flavor you like. It's the gelatin in the jello that makes the recipe work, not the flavor of the jello. You can use whatever flavor you deem to be good when paired with cranbwrries.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

@cookinfreakI'd hink they would work because from your list of other ingredients I think the jello has 2 purposes - to add sweetness as well as the right degree of consistency.

aroc3435 · ‎09-30-2010

@cookinfreak I think either of those alternatives would work. The raspberry might be a little bit more tart, like the cranberry Jell-o, but Jell-o is so sugary anyway that I think you will be fine either way if you can't find the cranberry flavor in another market.

Best of luck and Happy Thanksgiving. Hope we all have fun Thursday as we finally sit down to the feast after all our labor intensity leading up to THE day.

gizmogal · ‎05-09-2014

@cookinfreak wrote:
Hi everyone. I want to make the Pioneer Womans recipe for Nans Cranberry salad. It calls for cranberry jello. I couldn't find it at the grocery store I was in last night, but will check another. If I can't find it, would raspberry or cherry jello work? The recipe includes crushed pineapple, canned whole cranberry sauce and the topping is cream cheese mixed with powdered sugar.
TIA
cookin

I have seen the cranberry Jello in my local supermarket, but it’s hit or miss if it’s on the shelf when I might want it! I feel your quandary.

I think the recipe you describe has sufficient cranberry flavor in it from the can of whole cranberry sauce to carry off success even substituting cherry Jello. Whole Cranberry Sauce has a strong enough characteristic to keep that flavor profile as the mainstay of the recipe.

I think the raspberry flavor might conflict or be too distinctive with the cranberry flavor you’re trying to produce, so I’d stick to cherry. One other flavor that goes great with cranberry is citrus, so orange Jello might be a reasonable substitute. But it might change the color appeal, so that’s something to consider.

I’d try it with cherry and I think it will be delicious. Enjoy!

maryflo3333 · ‎11-14-2017

I have made this recipe many times. My recipe calls for raspberry jello. I have made it with the regular and the sugar free jello. I like it either way. I also add drained mandrian oranges to mine. I believe I got the recipe from a Taste of Home magazine.