When I was married in 1970 this salad was servred at one of my bridal showers. I also hate cottage cheese because of the texture, but I have eaten and served this salad for over 50 yrs.and still like it. It remains the only cottage cheese salad I will eat.
Dry Jell-o Salad
22 oz carton small curd creamed cottage cheese
Carton cool whip
Can of crushed pineapple drained well
**optional can drained mandarin oranges
2 packages dry jello---can be regular or sugar free. (I like 1 box orange mixed with 1 box of orange pineapple if you can still find it in stores, otherwise 2 boxes of either orange or cherry are also good).
Stir all ingredients together and sprinkle dry jello over top and mix in well. Place in bowl, or even a cake pan and cut squares. Refrigerate a few hours for jello to dissolve and flavors to blend. Keeps well in the refrigerator for several days. This salad is very forgiving and the amounts of fruit, coolwhip and cottage cheese do not have to be exact. It can also be halved to make with just one box of jello.
Hope you enjoy or it brings back memories of days passed.
Last edited by SueZQ from MN; 07-29-2025 at 08:54 PM.