Recipe For Lime Jello Cottage Cheese Salad
Jell o salads were somewhat popular in american cooking for about 100 years all the way up to the early 80 s.
Recipe for lime jello cottage cheese salad. Put the jello in the refrigerator until it is partially set. Put juice in saucepan and boil for 1 minute. Drain pineapple saving juice. It s perfect for potlucks backyard barbecues and family reunions.
Curd cottage cheese 1 sm. Add water if needed to make 1 1 2 cups juice. Add marshmallows and melt while stirring. Put into a mold or pretty dish and refrigerate till firm.
This recipe has the potential to be the most divisive one i ve posted here on house of nash eats. Grandma s lime green jello salad recipe with cottage cheese pineapple is a retro recipe that my husband s grandma made for many holiday meals to continue with the tradition i make this lime jello salad every thanksgiving and sometimes for christmas too. I love that it has cottage cheese in it and it is light creamy and just the right amount of sweet. This lime jello salad offers everything people adore or cannot abide about over the top congealed salads.
This gelatin lime cottage cheese salad just screams 1960 and is yet another interesting find in my grandmother s recipe box. Wow talk about an easy salad to make this is it. Not everyone enjoys a congealed salad not even when they harbor found memories of a grandmother or other family members serving these molded creations on special occasions. Size lime jello 1 6 8 oz can crushed pineapple 1 8 oz cool whip nut chips if desired.
Now my grammie didn t have a name on this recipe so i just gave it a name. Mix the jello according to directions on the box using all of the pineapple juice as the liquid adding enough water if needed to make the right amount on package. 1 8 oz sm. That just means there s more for the rest of us.