Gelatin salads used to be a mainstay on holiday tables, shaped into rings, molds, and towers in shades rarely found in food. They mixed sweet with savory, fruit with meats, and marshmallows with ...

Mix one 3.4-ounce box of instant chocolate pudding with 1 cup of cold milk. Whisk until it thickens, then add to gelatin mixture and blend thoroughly.

They were “fancy food” that were put together for presentation purposes. No one made a gelatin salad just for themselves. You either grew up with these, or you did not.

For example, in my grandmother’s copy of “The Joy of Sharing,” the church cookbook published in 1985 by the Oak Valley American Lutheran Church Women of Velva, North Dakota, I discovered 14 ...

Powdered gelatin was first patented in 1845 and the Jell-O brand was introduced in 1897, and soon, jelled dishes went mainstream due to a congregation of elements: mass-production of gelatin ...

3 cups spicy vegetable juice. ¼ cup chopped green onion. ½ cup chopped cucumber. ½ cup finely chopped celery. ½ cup finely chopped green bell pepper ...

Starting with a cake mix doesn’t mean you have to stick to plain sheet cake. These recipes take that basic box and turn it ...

This bullshot gelatin with marrowbone shortbread and pickled lemon was inspired by a 1980s cocktail. Photo by Ken Albala. And they look beautiful. They look like chimes. Yeah, I hung them in my ...

Gelatin recipes are more often ridiculed than respected these days. I even have done a fair share of laughing and shaking my head over the suspending of black-eyed peas, ...

Most recipes will require the mixture to be whipped further with an electric mixer until it has reached full volume (usually 3 to 4 minutes). Whipped cream is the second most stable aerator.