Cranberry Salad Moms Food

MOM G'S CRANBERRY JELL-O® SALAD

Steps:

• Dissolve lemon gelatin in boiling water in a bowl; stir in cold water. Chill in refrigerator until partially thickened, 30 to 40 minutes.
• Chop cranberries in a food processor and mix sugar into cranberries, pulsing once or twice to combine. Let cranberry mixture stand a few minutes to let sugar dissolve. Stir cranberry mixture, pineapple, celery, and walnuts into gelatin. Pour into a gelatin mold or serving dish. Refrigerate until fully set, about 4 hours.

MOM'S RAW CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Wash and pick through cranberries.
• Core and quarter apples.
• Seed and quarter orange.
• Grind in food processor starting with the orange, and then add apples and cranberries. You can do in batches so you don't over process it.
• We used a hand crank grinder to make this when I was a child.
• Add sugar (in the 50's we used 2 cups of sugar, so taste after a couple hours and adjust per your personal preferences).
• Let marinate for at least 6 hours or overnight.

MOM'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Combine water and sugar in pot and bring to a boil.
• Add cranberries. Cook until cranberries pop open.
• While mixture is hot, add strawberry Jell-o. Stir until combined.
• Add marshmallows. Stir until melted.
• Pour into bowl.
• Chill just until cool but not set. About 30 minutes. Your next step will be to add the rest of the ingredients. You want your apples, celery and pecans to be combined within the salad. You don't want them to sink to the bottom of the bowl. If the Jell-o mixture is too warm the ingredients will sink.
• Add apples, celery and pecans. Stir.
• Pour into mold or bowl. Chill until set.
• We usually fix this the night before so that it is ready to eat at Thanksgiving lunch.

CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Dissolve gelatin in hot water, then add cold water. Cool mixture and set aside.
• Wash and grind cranberries. Pare and chop apples (and oranges, if using) into small chunks.
• Stir together the ground cranberries, chopped apples and oranges (or pineapple) nuts, and sugar.
• Add to slightly thickened gelatin mixture; then pour into a mold and chill until salad is firm and holds its shape. Unmold onto salad greens.

CRANBERRY SALAD II

Steps:

• Combine the gelatin with hot water (don't let stand). Grind cranberries and orange (including rind) mix with sugar. Stir in nuts, celery and pineapple. Mix with prepared gelatin and chill.

CLASSIC CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Dissolve gelatin in boiling water; set aside.
• In food processor, chop the cranberries while still frozen.
• Add to the gelatin with 1 1/2 cup of sugar, stir to combine.
• In food processor, chop orange chunks until finely chopped; add to cranberry mixture.
• Stir in grape halves and pecans.
• Pour into decorative bowl or mold and chill overnight.
• Adjust sugar, if necessary.

FROZEN CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Mix first 5 ingredients, including the pineapple juice.
• Gently fold in cool whip until thoroughly blended.
• Place in a 9x13x2 in container, or line muffin cups with paper.
• Freeze overnight.

CRANBERRY FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Combine chopped cranberries with sugar, stirring well.
• Place mixture in colander and allow to drain overnight. Combine cranberry mixture with pineapple chunks and nuts.
• Fold in whipped cream.
• Chill thoroughly before serving.