I grew up in an era when gelatin salads were considered, nutritionally speaking, the moral equivalent of vegetable salads, served with pride in place of fresh greens — though my grandmother would ...

Soften gelatin for 5 minutes in cold water. Dissolve mixture in boiling water. Add sugar, vinegar, lemon juice and salt, then allow to cool. When mixture begins to stiffen, fold in vegetables. Pour ...

Like any other type of food item, salads come and go, falling into and out of popularity depending on culinary trends, diet fads, and the price and availability of ingredients. Some of these ...

The winter holidays are here, which for many means a bounty of joy, gratitude and, at least for a couple decades there in the mid-1900s, a frightening volume of gelatin. A succulent spiral ham. A ...

The humble Jell-O salad and its savory ancestor, aspic, are shaking up American kitchens and even getting a glossy, fine-dining revival. Aspic originally began in medieval kitchens as a way to ...