She called it: Cherry Berries on a Cloud- the base was a crunchy eggwhite and sugar crust like blob that she baked on a cookie sheet very low then covered with cherry pie filling and fresh strawberries on top and covered with fresh whip cream & more fruit. There are a couple of good ones I can’t find or were written in pencil. I have a hard time getting recipes from her. The tradition and dishes all live on for my children to keep alive and going. She is still alive (94) and passed me the torch with confidence almost 25 years ago when I started my family. My grandmother was an amazing self taught cook & caterer/hostess to all, and even if you’re not hungry…you still went home with a plate for when you get hungry. It’s a summer time lunch on top of really crisp iceberg lettuce. But it’s not just a holiday treat in my family. I agree with your husband on grandma’s green hello salad. “Well…years down the road, after I’m gone, you can make it say, ‘We eat this in remembrance of Mother'”! However, since I’m putting together this recipe collection for children, I’m going to include it (as well as my fruit cake recipe, which I think is dynamite but they all won’t eat!). And so far, the grandchildren have not been fans, but the two older ones in particular eat with their eyes, and the other three are still in the ‘just make it plain, ma’am, just make it plain’ stage. Now for the verdict… My husband when he was alive, and I both liked it, I have one nephew who would eat it…and everybody else, including my four children, have always hated it!! I think two of them are put-off by the texture of the cottage cheese in the jello. The original also called for 1/2 teaspoon each of lemon and lime flavoring, but I’ve never bothered with those. It is called ‘Party Salad’, has 1 pkg each lime and lemon jello, a can of condensed milk (think ‘Eagle Brand’) instead of evaporated milk, broken pecans instead of walnuts, and a teaspoon of horseradish (yes…horseradish…gives it an interesting little ‘kick’!). Found it in my mother’s copy of the ‘Kitchen Klatter Cookbook’, 3rd Ed., July 1973, published by The Prairie Press, Shenandoah, IA. I ran across this recipe probably 35 years ago and thought it sounded interesting. I know which cookbooks have which recipes, but when I’m gone, they’ll not have a clue!! I found this site when I googled ‘green jello with cottage cheese’, on the off-chance I might find a picture, as I’m starting to develop some full-page recipe cards (sheets?) for my four adult kids, who now all have their own Thanksgiving traditions but still want mother’s recipes. SO exciting to find there are others like me. Oh my gosh…this is too funny…there are OTHERS in the world who are actually familiar with this salad!! I truly thought I was the only one who’d ever made it.
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