Original Recipe
JELL-O: America’s Most Famous Dessert, c. 1920
Dissolve one package of Peach Jell-O in one cupful of boiling water and add one cupful of maple syrup. When it begins to thicken beat with an egg beater to thickness of whipped cream, then add 1 ½ cups of whipped cream and beaten white of one egg. Beat the mixture until very light and turn into the mould and pack in ice.
Comments: Eck. YOU CAN TASTE THE PEACH! Peach and maple? No, thank you.
I’m realizing that I need to trust my gut with these recipes. Most of these recipes are from early promotional booklets with a purpose to, you know, push product. I have been assuming that the recipes were made in some sort of test kitchen to a relatively high standard, but I think I’m wrong. I think that some of them were the brainchild of a poor working gal on a deadline.
Oh well. Onward!
Don't Break the Mold 