Pear-Go-Round Salad (Del Monte Ad, Ladies Home Journal, July 1958)

Pear-Go-Round Salad 
(Del Monte Ad, Ladies Home Journal, July 1958)

1 cup cottage cheese
1 package (3 oz) cream cheese
4-6 green (mint flavored) maraschino cherries, halved
1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup syrup from green cherries
2 packages strawberry or cherry flavored gelatin
1 can (1 lb. 13 oz.) Del Monte Pear Halves
Salad greens

Mix cottage and cream cheeses. Soften unflavored gelatin in syrup from cherries; dissolve over hot water.  Stir into cheese. Arrange cherry halves in bottom of 1 1/2 qt. mold or bowl; carefully spoon in cheese mixture. Chill until set.

Make red gelatin, using 3 1/2 cups liquid for the 2 packages instead of the 4 cups called for in directions. Chill until syrupy, pour over cheese. Chill 4-5 hours. At serving time, unmold on greens, add well-drained pear halves.

Serves 8-11

Triple Layer Pudding Pie (1975 Jell-o Advertisement)

Triple Layer Pudding Pie
(1975 Jello Advertisement)


1 package (4-serving size) Jell-o Chocolate Pudding and Pie Filling*
1 package (4-serving size) Jell-o Vanilla Pudding and Pie Filling*
3 1/2 cups milk
1 baked 9 or 9  5/8-inch Mrs. Smith's Pie Shell, cooled
1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
1 cup Cool Whip Non Dairy Whipped Topping

*or use Jell-o Instant Pudding and Pie Filling

Prepare pie filling mixes separately  as directed on package for pie, reducing the milk for each to
 1 3/4 cups. Pour chocolate pie filling into pie shell. Carefully spoon vanilla pie filling over the chocolate layer.  Chill 3 hours.  Blend syrup into whipped topping, spread over the vanilla layer.  Chill.