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Fros­ted Fruit Mold

I’ve been going through the recipe box that my mum put together back when she got mar­ried. Being a mod­ern young woman, in the late ‘60s, she evid­ently appre­ci­ated the con­veni­ence of pro­cessed, pre-packaged foods. There is more than one Jello salad, and sev­eral cas­ser­oles incor­por­at­ing canned, con­densed soup.

This one is my favourite:

Fros­ted Fruit Mold

• 1 3oz pack­age lime gelatin
• 1 cup boil­ing water
• 1 7oz bottle 7-Up
• 1 8 – 3/4oz can crushed pineapple
• 1 banana, sliced
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 table­spoon flour
• 1 egg beaten
• 1/2 cup whip­ping cream
• 1/4 cup shred­ded sharp pro­cessed Amer­ican cheese
• 2 table­spoon grated Parmesan

Chopped nuts are con­spicu­ously absent; its just not Jello salad with the crunch. I espe­cially like that she bucks tra­di­tion, call­ing for the more gen­eric fla­voured “gelatin”, but still falls back on brand-name soda. Also, real whipped cream (no edible oil product for Mum!), but pro­cessed Amer­ican cheese. Did Velveeta even come in “sharp” fla­vour back then?

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