need salad ideas for a 50's Sock Hop theme event
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one of my favorites is Apple salad.
apples diced
grapes sliced in half
pecans halves or chopped
mini marshmallows
mayo or cool whip added to cover the ingredients
My mom used to make this all the time back in the 60s when I was growing up.
I prefer the mayo but not everyone does. I've had it both ways.
apples diced
grapes sliced in half
pecans halves or chopped
mini marshmallows
mayo or cool whip added to cover the ingredients
My mom used to make this all the time back in the 60s when I was growing up.
I prefer the mayo but not everyone does. I've had it both ways.
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Rhonda that sounds like a very good salad but I for one can not deal with mayo in/on fruits. Maybe only one fruit, a banana and peanut butter sandwich, loved those as a kid. Nice it has the option of cool whip I would use whipped cream.
Most of the jello salads are made with or served with mayo.
Those that will take desserts will make the gooey super sweet type things, those are always at our church meals.
Most of the jello salads are made with or served with mayo.
Those that will take desserts will make the gooey super sweet type things, those are always at our church meals.
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My vintage books have 'garden' salads and a few jello ones. The books have a lot of dressing recipes and my church cookbooks state Miracle Whip in their broccoli dressings.
QuiltE, It was not a big thing in my small farming community, we tend to favor foods we grew up eating. I live 8 miles from where I grew up and we ate mayo in potato/pasta salads and lots on sandwiches. If Jello was served, with bananas and topped whipped cream, that would have been for a holiday meal.
Check out this site, her first paragraph says it all.
http://www.badanduglyofretrofood.com...get-those.html
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......QuiltE, It was not a big thing in my small farming community, we tend to favor foods we grew up eating. I live 8 miles from where I grew up and we ate mayo in potato/pasta salads and lots on sandwiches. If Jello was served, with bananas and topped whipped cream, that would have been for a holiday meal.
Check out this site, her first paragraph says it all.
http://www.badanduglyofretrofood.com...get-those.html
Check out this site, her first paragraph says it all.
http://www.badanduglyofretrofood.com...get-those.html
Like you, mayo was in potato salad, but in my case it was a homemade salad dressing, not at all like today's store-bought mayo. Jello salads just did not make it into the day-to-day three-squares of a farm family, but definitely were part of company meals .... or when we went to community/family/church events.
However, no, they were never made with mayo in them or served with .... nor do I recall seeing any recipes as such.
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Not in my world. We rarely used mayo in our jello salads. Mostly it was jello and fruit. There was one with Cool Whip and one with cottage cheese, but no mayo in jello salad here.
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