Making 1950s Jello Molds with REAL 1950s Jello! (SAVORY & sweet) | 20th c. Food History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2022
- In this video I am veering in to the realm of food history and using real 1950s gelatine to create my very own gelatine salads/molds. These were an icon of the mid-20th century but are seldomly eaten today (especially savory gelatine salads). In this video I will be making two molds- a savory one and a sweet one. Will this 70 year old gelatine set? and if it sets will it taste any good?
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I love historical recipe videos, I’ve never seen anyone actually use vintage food tho. Such a cool concept. Loving your channel so far x
Thank you, that’s so kind 💕
Honestly this was really sweet. I had an older friend at my shul growing up who brought a jello mold to every single potluck shabbos we had. Her love of jello was so legendary that my dad and I drove to the jello museum in the birthplace of jello in upstate New York to buy her some jello inspired earrings. This video just brought back so many memories of my friend. Thank you.
Yes! My grandmother handed down her Jello salad recipe that we had at each major holiday gathering and I still love it. I’m the only one in my family that still makes it. The top is lime Jello with maraschino cherries and pineapple. The bottom layer is cottage cheese, heavy whipping cream, and lemon Jello. Weird but delicious 😋
That sounds interesting! I may try it some time. 🤔🍒🍍🍋
Boy you took me back to every church supper I’ve been to since the 1960s. I’ve always enjoyed a Jell-O mould and salad.
Gelatin molded salads and deserts survived all the way into the 70's for my suburban housewife Mum's bridge games. I am in the middle of a visceral reaction to the savory dish - apparently, my body remembers and is less than thrilled. You, dear Ms. Carline, are definitely taking one for 'the team'.
I'm not surprised that the Jell-O survived for that many decades. It may actually be indestructible as long as it's kept dry. This is also food created with the idea of a nuclear bomb dropping at any second. If the family had a backyard bomb shelter, this and tuna fish would have filled the food shelves. Two world wars and a depression - the grandparents finished their plates. Even if those plates were full of shiny green 'salad'. Shudder.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Bridge games sound like so much fun, I would love to be a fly on the wall back then. It definitely seems indestructible because it was perfectly in tact! So cool. True, my grandma would always make sure everyone ate everything on their plate.
@@CarolineElizabethMartin I suspect bridge was an excuse to smoke cigarettes and catch up on the gossip (which means you were perpetually on guard against being the next topic of gossip). That, and an excuse to deep clean the house every few months because the main gossip source would definitely glance through your medical cabinet. The social pressure to measure up was Real.
Dainty little cigarettes, covered with lipstick. Served up with too much coffee and crust-less sandwiches. And multiple deserts. We need a sociology / anthropology MA candidate with time on their hands to see what seniors remember of the conversations. Any time I was home sick on Bridge day I was banished to me bedroom...
This was SO fun to watch. The savory one looks absolutely disgusting but I think the sweet one has promise! When I was growing up, jello desserts were fairly popular, and there's one where you make different flavors and chop them up into cubes, and then add the jello pieces to a sweetened condensed milk cream. So you get these different flavors of jello sitting in an opaque sweet cream - I think that's about the least offensive jello thing I can think of. And it looks pretty!
I’m so glad you thought it was fun! The savory one was indeed awful and I’m not a picky eater at all, I tried to give it 3 tries haha. The sweetened condensed milk jello dessert sounds delicious omg I need to try that bc I really like sweet jello
Great video.. Very well researched and executed. I'm amazed it doesn't have more views.
Fun to watch! My mom used to love making jello mold salads in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. She had one recipe which my dad used to call “sinus salad” because in addition to lime jello, pineapple, and cottage cheese it had horseradish! Can you believe it? Not a fan, but I still have her recipe 😂❤.
Oooo I love horseradish but probably not in sweet jello lol
As someone who fell victim to the “your sign as a jello dish” two years ago… you are brave. The Scorpio Jello was the absolute WORST!
I’ll have to investigate, I haven’t heard of that before haha
Loved this video!! My grandma always makes sweet jello molds, she was a baby boomer!! I have about 7-10 recipes of hers and they are all so so yummy!!!
Yum that sounds so good! I love sweet jello. I remember in preschool my teacher would make rainbow layered jello molds and I thought it was the coolest thing as a kid. I stared at that thing in complete wonder.
My mom loved to make jello fruit salads - she was very good at it, and we loved them. She had a great strawberry and cherry (Jello)/fresh cranberry salad that she would make for Thanksgiving - I have actually made it a few times as well. It is wonderful. She also made a green Jello/fruit (it had cream cheese mixed in with the Jello) salad that was really refreshing on a warm summer day..... brings back lots of memories. Thanks for sharing.
That sounds really tasty! I love cranberry salad, definitely my favorite side dish at thanksgiving. I’m glad I could spark those memories for you 🥰
Love this video! I make recipes from 1900-1970 Swedish cookbooks myself and it’s always fun to se someone trying out old recipes. Just found your channel and it feels like it’s almost made for me, I also sew my own clothing, totally disillusioned of the clothing industry and getting nice vintage clothing without plastics and plus-size dresses that doesn’t fit correctly. So I make my own, mostly 1950s and 1960s. I collect antique furniture and antique , vintage things. Looking forward to backtracking on your channel and watching more videos. Keep making more,🤗 💖
Wow we are really similar! History lovers unite!
@@CarolineElizabethMartin I also just saw you talking about wanting to grow your own food. I embarked on that journey last spring and this summer I can proudly say that I’m totally self sufficient on squash, green kale, carrots, spinach, and more. hoping my potatoes will last until at least February and many other vegetables that has lasted me all summer and autumn. Even got to conserve some and my freezer is full! So keep dreaming and create your own vegetable garden! Next summer I’m going even bigger growing more of everything 😁
@@lenorebjork2763 ahhh that’s so cool! Congrats. I love self sufficiency. Gardening is so relaxing, I just love being outside. I was thinking potatoes would be our largest calorie source. I also can’t wait to get my new fruit trees this spring. What types of fruit trees thrive in Sweden?
@@CarolineElizabethMartin Potato’s are great fun to grow! Each plant yields so much and I love the many different things that one can make of them. We have a lot of variety’s of apples and pears. Also plums and cherry. In a specific place called Gotland that’s an island , they have lots of mulberry trees. Some has been successful in planting peaches but only in the south and it’s not domestic. We also have almond, hazelnuts and walnut trees. I to love being in my garden, it’s quite small and there’s a lot of work to do but it’s my little piece of paradise ☺️ I hope you have a good day!
Being that it's Thankgiving, my mother would always have a Jello fruit salad on out table, or take one over to my Grandparents home. She would decorate it with Peach Slices, strawberries, grapes, bananas, etc. My mother was Not a good good cook, but her Jello fruit salads were always great. This video took me back to the Tupperware, and Stanley home parties she and her friends would have. The only thing missing is the Deviled Eggs!! Lol
Happy Thanksgiving
P.S you should do a video on the History of Tupperware..😁
Yum that does sound good and oooo I love my mom’s deviled eggs! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
my mom was boomer generation, and because i was a picky eater, I think she gave a jello salad a try i remember green jello with some lettuce in it 😂...lol must have been 3-4 years old and Nope didn't trick me. I feel like I have vague memories of see jello salads at restaurant windows/ maybe party ... but this is less the 5 years old at the time memories
Have you sewn a coat with a matching skirt? I recall that my mom made several "sets" of skirt/coat ensembles for herself in the 1960s. Also, very popular at that time was a blouse (or shell) made from the skirt suit lining.
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍👍👏👏new sub! Best video I've seen in a long time.
If I remember correctly, it was different colors like the old box that you showed (strawberry). It's been a long time ago, so I don't know if my memory is correct. I don't remember ever having savory jello.
I'm not a fan of Jell-O with vegetables or meat in it, either. This episode reminded me of one of the videos that B. Dylan Hollis did with a vintage Jell-O recipe that had tuna in it. Yuk!! I don't even care for fruit in Jell-O that much. I did make a layered Jell-O mold, once. It took a long time, because you have to wait for each layer to set up. I chose strawberry, lime and black cherry in the smaller boxes. For the first layer, l mixed softened cream cheese with strawberry. Next, was plain strawberry. Then lime with cream cheese followed by the plain lime. Last, came the black cherry with cream cheese followed by the plain. I think l made it in a rectangular Pyrex dish, because it was too plain looking and l had to slice a strawberry in half and place it wide end to wide end in the center to decorate it up a little for the party.
I loved this video !!!!! ..I have to ask a couple things... Did you get sick after ? ... I'm thinking maybe the boiling water would kill any common bacteria? but who knows. and Was the strawberry more flavorful than modern jello ? It just looked like it would be. I am pretty obsessed mid-century things and sort of envy you getting to try these .. kind of a priceless experience, but I would be way too afraid to try myself.
Nope, no sickness at all. The savory one was just very off-putting taste wise lol. Definitely a one of a kind experience!
1950-1970s didn't have a ton of GMOs like we do in our foods today. Example, we should be keep eggs, cheese, and butter on counter but sadly due to GMOs we can't. Even bread bought in store can't be kept out.
Too bad you weren't able to source the vegetable flavored jello from the 1960's. I remember there was: tomato, celery, Italian salad, and mixed vegetable. There was also a really interesting jello salad with onions, canned Mandarin oranges and Mandarin orange jello. My mom used those regularly for molded salads. It's also not difficult to make your own flavored gelatin, and the product is vastly superior to anything from a mix. I wouldn't worry about ingesting old jello packages - they are probably 75% sugar, and then there are the mostly artificial colors and flavors and collagen. So it's just extremely shelf-stable and not surprising it is safe after decades.
My mom used to make fruity Jello in the 70s , which was meh (unless she put mandarin oranges in it) but savory Jello was a hard no. Still not a fan of Jello. Jello pudding, however...
Pudding is far superior imo (especially chocolate)
Thank you so much for this great video, I have learned a lot from it❤Hello Carolina! I'm a content creator from China and upload videos in a Chinese website, I am a big fan of your videos! I want to send you this message because lately when I was making this video about introducing some food from 19th century cartoons, I think it would be really nice to use a clip of your content as reference. I want to ask your permission first and I'll give you the credit for sure!
Thank you, yea sure you can use a clip np. Good luck on your video.
@@CarolineElizabethMartin Thank you Caroline!
Next time add ginger ale to the sweet one and add the juice to fruit to it.
That sounds so good, I love ginger ale.
Maybe I'm not American enough, but just seeing most Jell-o dishes makes me barf...
Yea, it is kind of gag inducing lol