Here’s the original recipe: Source: Good Housekeeping (December, 1916) The original recipe was for Cranberry Salad, but when I updated the recipe I renamed it, Jellied Cranberry Sauce with Celery and Walnuts, to more accurately describe the dish. The colorful, tart jellied sauce was perfectly punctuated with the crunch of the celery and walnuts. It tasted similar to jellied cranberry sauce. When I made this salad I didn’t want to like it, but I was pleasantly surprised. The hundred-year-old Cranberry Salad recipe called for gelatin - and celery and walnuts. So, I have found that the day before is the sweet spot to let the flavors come together and make dinner prep easy.Remember the old-fashioned gelatin salads with embedded mystery fruits and vegetables that great-aunts inevitably brought to Thanksgiving dinners? Well, I’ve found one of those old recipes. Typically I make this salad a day in advance of when I plan to serve it.Īny more than 24 hours in advance and you risk the pecans getting a bit soggy and the topping hot holding up as well as I typically like. This cranberry jello salad is a great make-ahead dish for a holiday (or any) gathering. Pretty darn near the original, as I remember it! How Far In Advance Can I Make Cranberry Jello Salad? We were really impressed with how our adjustments turned out. Yes, we left the mini marshmallows in the topping, because the whipped topping for this cranberry jello salad just wouldn’t be the same without them. And we decided to whip our own cream for the topping. So, the cherry Jello powder became cranberry juice concentrate and unflavored gelatin. True to our fashion, we decided to tweak her recipe slightly in an attempt to cut a bit of the sugar and make it with more whole ingredients. Top it all off with a creamy and fluffy cream cheese and whipped cream layer, and you have everything you could imagine in a creamy, sweet, tart, crunchy combo.Īunt Jackie’s original cranberry jello salad recipe calls for a package of cherry Jello powder and 2 cups of prepared, sweetened whipped cream.
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My Great Aunt Jackie’s cranberry jello salad is not for the faint of heart.Įach serving is chock full of crunchy pecans, sweet pineapples, and, of course, sweet and tart cranberry goodness. But, even if we’re missing a few, they’re in our hearts and on our minds, and we all really cherish the time that we do have to be together.Īunt Jackie’s Cranberry Jello Salad Recipe Now that the “kids” are growing up, the family is spread over a wider region of the US.įor the most part, we only see them on the Holidays, and even then, it’s hard to get the ‘whole crew’ back together. It was beautiful to grow up surrounded by such support, and something that I definitely took for granted before I moved a few states away. This meant grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins could get together often to celebrate or just share life. The family was (and still is) tight-knit, and when we were growing up, nearly all of them live within fifteen minutes of each other. I was blessed to grow up so close to my Dad’s family. One bite of this cranberry jello salad reminds me of loud Thanksgivings spent gathered around a large table laden with traditional American Thanksgiving fare – turkey, cranberries, mashed potatoes, rolls, the works.Īnd, it reminds me of the rowdy “kids” table tucked in the kitchen, where we were always asking for more mashed potatoes and corn. (We’d have her jello salads instead of a more traditional Thanksgiving cranberry sauce.) She loved jello salads and always made two different varieties for family Thanksgiving gatherings. This recipe comes from my Dad’s Aunt Jackie. Cranberry Jello Salad: A family tradition
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