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Without being too pretentious it doesn't hurt to remember that preparing food en gelee or in aspic has a long and respectable history and was once the signature of fine dining.
I guess Jello just brought it to the huddled masses. I'm thinking aspic is to Jello what a fine wine is to strawberry schnapps.
Without being too pretentious it doesn't hurt to remember that preparing food en gelee or in aspic has a long and respectable history and was once the signature of fine dining.
I guess Jello just brought it to the huddled masses. I'm thinking aspic is to Jello what a fine wine is to strawberry schnapps.
Do you have a picture? That sounds simply beautiful!
I remember stained glass Christmas cookies in the 70s.
I tried to find a picture on the Internet for you, but what I did find didn't show off the beauty of the Cathedral Window Jello dessert. I have never made this before, but I remember seeing this dessert in person and it was awesomely gorgeous. I think you have to make it yourself or see it in person to appreciate how beautiful it is - pictures do not do it justice. I remember the Christmas Stain Glass cookies and they were also very beautiful, especially when they had a light reflecting behind them - incredible! If I do run across a picture that rightfully shows off the Cathedral dessert's beauty, I will be back with it.
One of my maternal aunts used to make the best jello parfaits when I was kid. I swear she had a zillion different recipes.
I spent half a summer at my cousins house in the mountains one time and seemed like every other night she had a different type. That lady loved to cook. This was on the Italian Oakie side of my family.
Some of my best summer memories are of spending time with my cousin riding dirt bikes, playing army with pellet guns, fishing and hunting rabbits, birds in in the mountains around Jackson California. Then getting home for dinner which was always fantastic as well but oh those jello parfaits.
No one has every been able to make the ones as good as my auntie T.
For holidays, my mom always makes the Jello salad that her mom made--black cherry jello with canned black cherries in it. As far as Jello molds go, it's not bad.
So did my mother. The recipe was layers of black cherry Jell-O alternating with layers of canned green grapes, sour cream and canned sour cherries. I used to think it was the classiest Jell-O dish ever and look forward to having it, but now the thought of it makes me queasy.
OMG some of those aspic recipes from the 40's, 50's and 60's are crazy.
I love tomato aspic and so does my brother or he did anyway. I have fixed it in years. The rest of the family thought I had lost my mind. This makes me want to try it again.
I doubt I have made jello salad in 30 years, but when I had my knee replaced ealier this year a friend brought dinner. One think that she had made was a basic raspberry jello salad with just the jello and fresh raspberries. It really was awesome. If nothing else this brings back the days when I was growing up. Mom made some sort of jello once a week.
Speaking of salad, it's funny how the definition used to include something with pudding and marshmallows! It seems like almost all of these Jell-O recipes were called salad, even if it consisted of meat and cheese inside gelatin. I guess any cold dish was called a salad back then.
No, it was lime Jell-O (my favorite) with (I think) cottage cheese. I did try to make Watergate salad once because my husband loves pistachio pudding, but I could not get the powder to dissolve properly and it was rather gritty. It sounds good though.
I know aspics have a long and proud history but meat aspic? tomato aspic? Nope nope nope.
Now I'm really craving some jello. Nothing weird, just with some berries in it or something.
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