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[rivka]

I made Jello tonight. For the first time in my life.

It's not the Jello of my youth, because it's lacking in canned "fruit cocktail." (My mother was a serious cook, and therefore never employed mini marshmallows.) It does have canned pears and banana slices, though.

It would never have occurred to me to make Jello, except that Alex suggested that she could bring some to school to share with the friends on her birthday. When I expressed surprise, she and Michael both informed me that they like Jello. I never knew. So we bought some, and then Michael got sick and it seemed that it would be a kindness to make something that would slip easily down his sore throat.

So, Jello. In our fridge. But I swear I draw the line well before Chef Boy-Ar-Dee canned ravioli.

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[ailbhe]

Jellyanicecream is really part of children's party food, here. Also, some people make trifle with jelly, but we never did - my mother's family's recipe is sponge cake covered in raspberry jam, soaked in the juice from tins of fruit, layered with the fruit from the same tins, and sherry, covered in custard, chilled and left to set, then covered in whipped cream.

The idea that it would be served instead of something nutritious seems a bit odd.

We also used to buy blocks of it and eat them not-made-up-with-water as sweets, cut up into tiny bits. It was a fad which lasted a summer.

[txobserver.livejournal.com]

When you put a lot of raw vegetables in it (or cut up fruit) it is nutritious, although having too much sugar. Those old Jello salads used the Jello to bind a lot of other ingredients together, and I guess should be looked at in comparison to dressing on a conventional salad.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

some people make trifle with jelly, but we never did - my mother's family's recipe is sponge cake covered in raspberry jam,

See, this is the reverse of papersky picturing Americans eating peanut butter and Jello sandwiches. I knew that trifle had layers of cake, jelly, fruit, and custard, but I never translated it as British English, so I never pictured it as having anything but the jam kind of jelly. Huh.

(I've never had trifle.)