<p>^^^my mil does the exact same thing but uses whiskey instead. I’m not kidding!</p>
<p>Now that I have to try! How much whiskey?</p>
<p>I remember a cake we poked holes in with a wooden spoon. Can’t remember what we poured on it though. The cake with pudding/oil/4 eggs is very good. We swirled cinnamon/sugar/nuts into ours.</p>
<p>Love reading this thread. I could never get ambitious enough to cook all this though. I like food simple and can’t get motivated for Thanksgiving. I finally bought the turkey and stuff for green bean casserole. My mom will have to come up with the rest. I wish we had a huge gathering where everyone brought dishes.</p>
<p>mmmmm sryrstress…that sounds good, nuts, cinnamon & sugar!</p>
<p>Matermia: Apparently the whiskey is in the glaze. She also starts with a basic box yellow cake and makes a quick glaze to pour over the cake as it comes out of the oven.</p>
<p>Cake comes out of the oven. Poke little toothpick holes onto top of cake, still in pan. Pour over glaze and let it set:</p>
<p>Melt one stick of butter, add 1/2 c. sugar and stir. Add 1/4 c. whiskey and stir again. Pour over hot cake.</p>
<p>Eat and enjoy! :D</p>
<p>My fifties mom never made Jello molds. She hated trying to unmold and every experiment was an abject failure. My mother was not the quintessential fifties mom not by any wild stretch of imagination. I remember other kids who had mom’s who made these crazy Jello molds. I’m thinking it might be fun to find a great Jello recipe for Christmas. We inherited molds from H’s side of the family that are sitting in our pantry. My Thanksgiving shopping list is done. I add blue cheese to my sweet potatoes…my family doesn’t like the over sweetened potatoes with the brown sugar. I make classic dressing but I use sage sausage instead of sweet Italian.</p>
<p>My Aunt always did a orange jello with shredded carrots in it. It took me several years before I liked it.</p>
<p>Here’s a retro Jello mold recipe I love to make:
LIME JELLO SALAD</p>
<p>2 (3-oz) pkgs lime Jello
1 cup pineapple juice, heated
Juice of 2 limes<br>
Juice of 1 orange
1 cup canned pineapple chunks, drained and diced (I just use crushed pineapple)
1 (11 oz) can Mandarin orange sections, drained
6 oz cream cheese, softened
1 cup heavy cream, whipped
1/2 cup mayo
1 cup mini marshmallows
1/2 cup toasted pecans, chopped (I use walnuts)
Shredded iceberg lettuce, for serving</p>
<ol>
<li> Coat a 10-cup mold w/ vegatable spray</li>
<li> Dissolve gelatin in hot pineapple juice in a 2-cup measure. Add lime juice, orange juice, and enough water to equal 2 cups of liquid. Pour gelatin into a bowl, stir well, cover, and chill until nearly firm.</li>
<li> Lightly whish chilled gelatin mixture. Fold in pineapple chunks, orange slices, cream cheese, whipped cream, mayo, mini marshmallows, and pecans. Pour into prepared mold and chill 2 to 4 hours, or until firm.</li>
<li> To release, dip bottom of mold in bowl of hot water for few seconds. Invert plate and turn over. Arrange on lettuce if you want.</li>
</ol>
<p>I got this from “Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters.”</p>
<p>^^My mother probably would have love vegetable spray. I remember her putting a hot wash cloth on a Jello attempt and just crying as it unmolded…melted.</p>
<p>My mom was a jello queen. She put everything imaginable into it. Her favorite was lime jello with cottage cheese and nuts. Man, I hope those molds (which I’m sure are in her basement) get put into my sister’s “pile”. A couple of years ago she had us make lists of what we most wanted after she died. I’m going to go add jello molds to my sister’s list. Maybe put a sticky note on them just to be sure :)</p>
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<p>Lol. As far as I can remember, my mother never once made jello in her entire life. That’s probably one reason why I like it.</p>
<p>My husband’s family, however, sounds more like your family growing up. It wasn’t a meal if they didn’t have a jello dish.</p>
<p>How about deviled eggs? Those I really loved. My mom would make tons and tons of deviled eggs. And spread cream cheese on celery. </p>
<p>I miss my mom! She’s a six hour plane flight away but I think I’m going to have to go see her. She’s in a retirement home with my dad and still plays bridge and likes her Manhattan every night. And believe it or not, the retirement home has jello on the menu every meal – even breakfast. Nothing elaborate – strawberries in red jello is frequent.</p>
<p>You know we spread peanut butter on celery … I thought everyone did this until we moved to Texas and put that on a veggie tray at a party - and folks thought it was the best idea!</p>
<p>Love Deviled eggs but I haven’t seen them at a party in a long time. We also spread peanut butter on celery here in Ca.</p>
<p>All this jello reminds me of the Jello Matrix in
[No Man knows my Pastries](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/No-Man-Knows-Pastries-Christensen/dp/1560850280”>http://www.amazon.com/No-Man-Knows-Pastries-Christensen/dp/1560850280</a>)</p>
<p>Deviled eggs are always a huge hit with my kids. And, I take them to pot-lucks and get requests to bring them again. I think half the people never had them before and the othere, not for ages.</p>
<p>Going back a couple of days (have been away). </p>
<p>My mother didn’t do the mosaic bit (“glue tiles on everything”) but she was into decoupage. Anyone remember that? She was actually very good at it and the resulting surface was like glass. But, ???</p>
<p>And “antiquing” furniture, which meant, as I recall, brushing on a base coat of paint, then smearing dark stain onto it and wiping it off with cheesecloth so that the dark color filled the lower parts of the brush strokes. I am remembering a dull green paint and dark brown/almost black stain.</p>
<p>I just received my assignment for Thanksgiving at a relative’s house: salad.
Hmmm. First, I like to have everyone here for TG, but that is beside the point, but explains why I am strangely out of my depth, because I make salads based on what I have.
Second, I don’t usually follow recipes for salads; I just work with what is fresh and available.
Third, I live far enough north that the farmers’ market closed this weekend and I must now depend on the the supermarket. (No TJ!)</p>
<p>Any great ideas?</p>
<p>A girl at work made this for a potluck - and I’ve made it twice since - so good!</p>
<p>CHOPPED SALAD</p>
<p>1 head lettuce, chopped<br>
1/2 C. shredded cheddar cheese
1 sm. head cauliflower<br>
1 sm. onion or chopped green onions<br>
1 lb. bacon,fried crisp and crumbled (can substitute bacon bits)
I also added 4 boiled eggs.</p>
<p>1/2 C. sugar
1 C. real mayonnaise</p>
<p>Toss the first 5 ingredients. Before serving, mix the next 2 ingredients and mix
into the salad.</p>
<p>mafool- this is a delicious simple salad. Arugula with a lemon dressing with shaved parmesan. I use this dressing recipe obviously skipping the steak. [Grilled</a> Filet Steak and Arugula Recipe : Ina Garten : Food Network](<a href=“http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/grilled-filet-steak-and-arugula-recipe/index.html]Grilled”>http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/grilled-filet-steak-and-arugula-recipe/index.html)</p>
<p>too spicy for some^^^^</p>