They Loved Them Some Jello In The 50s

After my grandma passed, my folks and I cleared out her house in preparation for selling it. I came across a jello cookbook from the 60s. Hee-larious. And incredibly vile in some regards. Tuna in your lime jello, anyone?

Nostalgic Repost Of Repasts Past: The Jell-O Recipe That Mamie Eisenhower Used To Win The Cold War

by Wonkette Jr.

Nov 26 4:05 pm 2014

You'd never guess where Ike wants me to put this.

Here is your bit of “DC gossip” for the day: a Jell-O dessert recipe, for the holiday of Thanksgiving! It is Mamie Eisenhower’s famed Red Scare Thanksgiving Jell-o Dessert and it is best served chilled, to family members you hate. (There is Mamie right there with “friend” Lenora Hickok, feeding each other Jell-O and giggling knowingly.) This vile thing is exactly what the Eisenhowers used to force-feed the Soviets, and it is delicious.

Ingredients:

One (1) packet of sugar-free raspberry Jello

One (1) small-ish amount of water

One (1) handful of ice cubes

One (1) cup of Sprite Zero

One (1) packet of Cherry-Pomegranate Crystal Light

Fill a small-ish sauce pan thing with water. Ideally it should amount to around a cup or so, but sometimes even the best chefs have a difficult time finding where overreaching family members moved the measuring cups, so just whatever feels like a cup, that’s probably a cup.

Pour out the sugar-free raspberry Jello into a bowl. Make sure the bowl is big enough to hold at least two or so cups of liquid. This last point is crucial.

Stare at the water until it boils. Do not worry: it will boil, despite the epigram suggesting otherwise.

Pour the boiling water on top of the Jello in the bowl and stir it a few times so all the Jello particles whiz around in an even fashion and none are stuck to the bottom.

Pour like a half-cup of cold Sprite Zero into the mixture too.

So now grab a handful of ice cubes and place them in here too, as this will hasten the Jello along on its journey from liquid Jello to Jello Jello.

Add a dash, or more than a dash—no judgment!—of Cherry-Pomegranate Crystal Light. There are now several different flavors floating about, which is several minus one more than you would have in cases of unmodified sugar-free raspberry Jello.

Place in freezer. You heard me.

Check on the Jello by sticking your finger in it every 10 to 15 minutes.

When it resembles an ice-skating rink covered in blood (a hockey rink?), it is Time.

This is all it took, plus Ronald Reagan.

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