Cranberry Salad

Arwilda kept five different recipes with this title.

Celery, walnut, and sugared-ground-cranberry recipe

Decorative Recipe Tin typed two-sided card

Yield: serves 6-8

Ingredients

  • 1 box strawberry or cherry jello(or royal gelatin [cropped]; separate indented 1/2 cup partial line
  • 1½ cups water
  • 1 cup cranberries (ground)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup celery
  • ½ cup walnuts
  • f.d. lemon juice
  • f.g. salt

Directions

  1. Grind cranberries, add sugar and let stand two hours.
  2. Add celery, walnuts, lemon juice and salt.
  3. Add all this mixture to jello which has been dissolved in water.
  4. Let set until very firm

Timing: let stand two hours

Temperature: cranberries ground; gelatin dissolved; set until very firm

Equipment: cranberry grinder; mixing bowl and utensil; setting dish or mold

Cranberry and whole-orange molded recipe

Decorative Tin shared-sheet Cranberry + Orange Salad

Ingredients

  • 1 pkg. orange Jello
  • 1 3/4 cups hot water
  • 1 medium orange unpeeled
  • 1 cup raw cranberries
  • 3/4 sugar

Directions

  1. Dissolve Jello in hot water. Chill until slightly thickened.
  2. Put orange + cranberries through food chopper + add sugar.
  3. Fold into slightly thickened jello. Pour into molds + chill until firm.

Temperature: hot water; chill; slightly thickened; chill until firm

Equipment: food chopper; molds

Jellied cranberry relish recipe

Jellied cranberry Relish Salad on reused insurance form

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Fresh cranberries
  • 1 lemon, quartered and seeded
  • 1 apple, peeled, quartered, & seeded
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 package fruit flavored gelatin

Directions

  1. Put the cranberries and fruit through a food chopper.
  2. Combine with the sugar and let stand a few hours to blend.
  3. Prepare fruit flavored gelatin as directed on the package, reducing water by 1/4 cup; chill until syrupy.
  4. Stir into ground cranberry relish mixture.
  5. Pour into star Molds and chill until firm.
  6. Unmold on lettuce or watercress and serve garnished with orange sections for a gay touch to your holiday feasting.

Timing: a few hours

Temperature: chill until syrupy; chill until firm

Equipment: food chopper; star Molds; refrigerator

As written

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Rosa cranberry-orange, vinegar, celery, and strawberry-gelatin recipe

Clear Tote Rosa two-sided handwritten card

From Recipe from the kitchen of Rosa [surname unresolved].

Ingredients

  • 1# Cranberries (raw)
  • 1 Orange (and about ½ peel)
  • 1 cup chopped nuts
  • 2 pks strawberry jello 3 oz.
  • 3 cups water
  • Cup and half sugar
  • 4 Tablespoons vinegar
  • 1 cup fine chopped celery

Directions

  1. Run cranberries and orange through chopper (save juice).
  2. Mix berries orange, nuts, sugar, vinegar and celery.
  3. Make jello - use only 3 cups water.
  4. Put the juice in the bowl with the fruit - let jello set until half way thickened - put in fruit and mix well.

Equipment: chopper and bowl

As written

Here's what's cookin' Serves Recipe from the kitchen of Rosa [surname unreadable]

Arwilda’s changes

  • Added “use only 3 cups water”

Virginia lemon-gelatin, marshmallow, and pineapple recipe

Clear Tote typed card attributed to Virginia

From Virginia.

Ingredients

  • 1 c. Cranberries
  • 1 package lemon jello (small)
  • 1 c. Marshmellows (cut fine or minature)
  • 1 c. Crushed Pineapple
  • ½ c. nut meats
  • 1 c. pineapple juice
  • 1 cup water

Directions

  1. 1 cup water added to cranberries, cook until tender.
  2. As soon as cook take off of stove, add jello, stir in.
  3. Add marshmellows. Stir until desolved.
  4. Add nut meat, pineapple juice and pineapple.
  5. Set aside to cool-to set

Equipment: stove

Compare the cards

Fruit, gelatin, and mix-in structure

Clear Tote typed card attributed to Virginia
1 cup cranberries, small lemon gelatin, 1 cup marshmallows, 1 cup crushed pineapple, 1/2 cup nut meats, and 1 cup pineapple juice
Decorative Recipe Tin typed two-sided card
Strawberry or cherry gelatin, 1 cup ground cranberries, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup celery, 1/2 cup walnuts, lemon juice, and salt, plus an unidentified 1/2 cup partial line
Clear Tote Rosa two-sided handwritten card
1 pound raw cranberries, 1 orange with about half its peel, 1 cup nuts, two 3-ounce strawberry gelatins, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 4 tablespoons vinegar, and 1 cup celery
Decorative Tin shared-sheet Cranberry + Orange Salad
Orange gelatin, hot water, one unpeeled orange, raw cranberries, and 3/4 sugar with no written unit
Jellied cranberry Relish Salad on reused insurance form
Fresh cranberries, lemon, apple, sugar, and fruit-flavored gelatin

Cranberry and gelatin preparation

Clear Tote typed card attributed to Virginia
Cook cranberries in water until tender; remove from stove, dissolve gelatin and marshmallows, add remaining ingredients, and cool to set
Decorative Recipe Tin typed two-sided card
Grind cranberries, stand with sugar two hours, add celery, walnuts, lemon juice, and salt, then combine with dissolved gelatin and set firm
Clear Tote Rosa two-sided handwritten card
Chop cranberry and orange, mix fruit with nuts, sugar, vinegar, and celery, partially thicken gelatin with saved juice, then combine
Decorative Tin shared-sheet Cranberry + Orange Salad
Partially thicken orange gelatin, chop orange and cranberries, add sugar, fold together, mold, and chill firm
Jellied cranberry Relish Salad on reused insurance form
Chop cranberries, lemon, and apple; stand with sugar; fold into syrupy gelatin; set in star molds and garnish

Name on the card

Clear Tote typed card attributed to Virginia
Virginia
Decorative Recipe Tin typed two-sided card
No attribution appears
Clear Tote Rosa two-sided handwritten card
Rosa, surname unresolved

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