Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Guilty Pleasures Continued

All this talk about guilty pleasures got me thinking about my Granny’s cooking. She was from Mississippi originally and it was in all her recipes. She was from a generation that would leave the butter out for days, always had buttermilk in her fridge, kept a jar of bacon fat on the stove and used it for everything. She also had a way to use pre-packaged foods in things that would make Sandra Lee fall at her feet in worship.

Below is a recipe for a desert she used to make which I will affectionately call “Granny’s Strawberry Angel Food Delight.”

Ingredients
1 whole angel food cake from the grocery store bakery, cut into cubes
2 boxes of strawberry flavored Jell-O brand gelatin
1 8oz. package of frozen strawberries
1 large tub of Cool Whip topping

Put the cubed angel food cake in a single layer into a 9”x13” Pyrex baking pan.
Prepare the Jell-O per box instructions. Add the frozen strawberries and fold in the entire tub of Cool Whip topping. Poor the Jell-O mixture over the angel food cake covering completely. Chill to set (about 2 hours). Cut into squares. Enjoy!

3 comments:

LK Smith said...

Why do people encase things in Jell-O like a wiggly tomb?

I like peaches in there, but it is an odd preoccupation we Americans get from food scientists.

Lorena said...

Aspic. Meaty Jell-O. Enough said.

Kevin Hudson said...

this is not as much encased in jello as the jello is a binding agent. the desert is more solid that jello surprise