Should meat jelly make a comeback? | Ancient Recipes With Sohla


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Sohla tackles the wildest recipe yet – an aspic jelly with fish tongues and lips from the earliest known Arabic cookbook, in this episode of Ancient Recipes.

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  1. Jennifer Mauldin
    Jennifer Mauldin says:

    It's sweet not savory, but my family still makes a jello salad every year for thanksgiving and Christmas. We call it "pink stuff" but it's technically called "cranberry cream salad". Came from the back of a cherry jello box in the 50s. Cherry jello, jellied cranberry sauce, sour cream, celery, and pecans. Yummy!

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  2. elebirdz
    elebirdz says:

    While it's not exactly savory, I feel that the spirit of all the weird and wacky midcentury aspics lives on in the trendy aquarium cakes we have today. They're very weird when you step back and think about them, but oh so pretty.

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  3. Isabella Rubio
    Isabella Rubio says:

    I love aspic, we make some in summer with white smoked fish, also english cucumber, shredded cabbage, and shredded carrots in orange lemmon jello mold with hard boiled eggs and sliced tomatoes great for summer.

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  4. Christian
    Christian says:

    One of my all time favorite foods as a kid (and adult) was a savory gelatin salad that was served at a local dept stores restaurant (Maas Bros in S FL 70s-90s, the recipe is online). It is absolutely delicious and not at all scary. It was served as a salad course before your meal, which in my case was the french onion soup and finger sandwich platter. Every trip to the mall I begged to eat there just to have that salad.

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  5. Michelle F
    Michelle F says:

    My grandpa requested sour cream pie a long time ago. My mom wouldn't make it for him because she thought it sounded gross, but I decided to. It has raisins, sour cream, and what I would consider Christmas spices. I thought it was actually pretty good! I guess it would be a vintage recipe? Might be an interesting one to try.

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  6. Laura Beutler
    Laura Beutler says:

    My grandmother used to make a different jello salad every time she had us for dinner. As a child, I ate exactly none of them, because she was fond of lime jello with celery and other additions I refused to eat back then.

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  7. Talani Greywolf
    Talani Greywolf says:

    My nana made a gelatin salad using lime flavor with finely chopped celery, onion, and topped with a mixture of cream cheese, sour cream and sugar. I was a weird kid and really enjoyed that stuff!

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  8. Marianna Zajac
    Marianna Zajac says:

    My Ukrainian-American family still eats ‘studynets’ which is jellied pigs feet. It’s something my parents and aunts and uncles eat but I’m going to TRY and like it for history and tradition sake.

    Speaking of which, it would be so interesting to see an episode about Ukrainian borshch!

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  9. Giant Speck
    Giant Speck says:

    My family has a recipe for a sweet gelatin salad called "Sunshine Salad". It contains shredded cabbage, shredded carrots, and crushed canned pineapple suspended in a mixture of orange and lemon JELL-O. An important part of the recipe is that you have to use canned pineapple. Fresh pineapple contains an enzyme called bromelain which prevents the gelatin from setting. Canned pineapple works because the pineapple is heated during the canning process, which breaks down the bromelain. In any case, it's really good! It's tangy, sweet, and the shredded vegetables don't add flavor—they add texture.

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