Jello Recipes

Jell-o ® is the wonderful line of products including the gelatin, pudding, and no bake desserts. Jello can be used to create delicious dishes suitable at any meal. Salads and desserts can be created in minutes, refrigerated, and enjoyed a short time later. Jello-o ® gelatin and pudding are produced in dozens of flavors and colors and offer the home chef an infinite number of ways to be creative and create new Jello dishes.

Jell-o Gelatin ® and Jell-o pudding ® are available in sugar-based form, as well as fat-free, low-calorie and sugar free varieties. This makes Jell-o ® a perfect ingredient for use in creating health conscious dessert and salad dishes. Jello can be used to make wonderful parfaits, cakes, cheesecakes, pies, salads, and cookies, even Jello beverages.

JelloRecipes.net offer the best, time-tested Jello recipes perfect for your next meal or family party. Bookmark the site and enjoy our growing collection of Jello recipes.

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The Best Jello Salad Recipes

Jello salad recipes are simple to make and often just involve mixing the jello with water, adding a few other ingredients and letting it set. There are many different jello recipes available and if you are looking for a jello salad recipe, which can be served either as a dessert or as an accompaniment for a turkey dinner, the following recipe is ideal.

You can either serve this jello salad recipe with whipped cream as a light, refreshing dessert after a big meal or serve it with a roast dinner instead of traditional cranberry sauce. Either way, this is definitely a dessert you will want to make again and again.

Apple and Cranberry Jello Salad Recipe

Ingredients -

8 yellow delicious apples
1 bag fresh cranberries
2 cups sugar
1 can drained, crushed pineapple
2 boxes strawberry jello
1 box cranberry jello
2 ½ cups hot water

Preparation:

Grind the cranberries with the apples and set aside. You can use a food processor to chop the fruit fairly fine but maintain it in a chunky state we are not looking for mush here.

Dissolve the sugar and jello in water in a pan over a medium heat. Remove from the heat and add the fruit. Transfer to a serving bowl and chill for five hours or overnight, then serve chilled, either with cream or as an accompaniment to a turkey dinner.

I nice addition is to use sour cream and or add chopped walnuts to this Jello salad recipe.

(Serves 10)

Jello Salad Recipes

As you can see from the recipe above and the recipes through out the site Jello is a very versatile dessert product. Jello salads like the one above can be found on many American holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving would just not be complete without a wonderful mixture of fruit, nuts, sour cream, and Jello to make a festive jello salad recipe.

This site is dedicated to everything you can make and eat with jello. We develop recipes with our on staff chef and from visitors that have an original jello dessert they wish to share with other jello lovers the world over.

Separated by a Common Language Jelly vs. Jello

Jello in the UK is know by the term Jelly which probably explains why so many Europeans get grossed out by the thought of that American staple the "peanut butter and jelly sandwich." I have to admit the thought of a piece of bread smeared with peanut butter and then topped with a big heaping serving of jello on top doesn’t sound that appealing.

Never the less jello is one of the most widely eaten desserts in the world as you will see by our piece on the invention of jello and our in-depth look at the history of jello it wasn’t always that way and the product got off to a very humble start. We hope you enjoy our site and if you have time we always appreciate a bookmark in your favorite social bookmark site it helps us share our site with your friends.

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The Invention of Jello

The inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist Peter Cooper of Cooper Union and Tom Thumb engine fame was responsible for the invention of jello in 1845. He got the first patent for a gelatin dessert but never promoted his product.

Pearl B Watt, who was a cough syrup manufacturer from Le Roy in New York dealing in patent medicines, bought the patent in 1895 and created a pre-packaged commercial product. His wife, May David Watt, coined the word Jell-O and created raspberry, lemon, orange and strawberry flavors in 1897 but they did not manage to sell the product successfully.

A school dropout called Frank Woodward bought the rights to Jell-O for $450. Frank Woodward also marketed a variety of patent medicines, a roasted coffee substitute called Grain-O and Raccoon corn plasters.

Woodward advertised in the Ladies' Home Journal, announcing that Jell-O was "America's Most Famous Dessert" but this did not have the hoped for response and the invention of jello did not seem to be making any progress.

Jello Marketing

Since the sales of Jell-O did not seem to be taking off, Woodward offered to sell the jello rights for $35 to his plant superintendent. Before the final sale took place, Woodward's advertising finally paid off and sales had reached $1 million by 1906. Woodward sent salesmen out to demonstrate Jell-O and give out 15 million copies of a Jell-O cookbook featuring celebrity favorites. This was a pioneering move at the time. Cherry, peach, and chocolate flavored jello varieties were added and the brand was launched in Canada.

With this level of marketing, the popularity of jello rose and the Genessee Pure Food Company owned by Woodward was renamed the Jell-O Company in 1923. This company later merged with Postum Cereal and was called the General Foods Corporation.

The rest is all history or so the saying goes for a more in-depth look at the history of Jello see the following link for more of the History of Jello Pudding

What does all this mean to you and I, it is just the beginnings of another wonderful bunch of Jello recipes. Watch it wiggle and think of how many ways you can make it so many delicious jello dessert recipes.

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