SC - Thanksgiving and Semi-Alternate Lifestyles (long)

[Bonne of Traquair]

molded jell-o recipes almost all can be traced back to the recipe booklets 
distributed by the company.  My mother has an early 60's version that she 
says isn't much different from the 1930's version (now disappearred) that 
her mother had.  She was able to compare them side-by-side.  So, while one 
recipe or style of recipe may be more prevalent in certain parts of the 
country, the knowledge of them is widespread and all came around the same 
time, originally.

re: watergate salad, I'm really going through the dregs of my memory here, 
but I beleive it can be traced to a nationally distributed woman's magazine, 
but was earlier than the watergate scandal, who knows why that name got 
stuck on it?  (these factoids without proof are probably gleaned from a 
stint on a non-SCA cookery list 8 years ago at least.  Or from the 
wide-ranging discussion on a gardening list I was on during the same era).


Bonne

>>Adamantius wrote:
> > >many snips<
> > The American lime-jello-mold
> > dish isn't strictly pan-american: I've never eaten,
> > or even seen, such a
> > dish in my life. I believe it is mostly a Southern
> > phenomenon.   >more snips<
>
>Well, my mother's family frequently makes lime jello
>mold, with cottage cheese and without it, and they are
>all from Buffalo, New York.  One of my aunts, who
>still lives there, serves it every time we visit her.
>
>Huette (who thinks of jello [in any form] as a comfort dish)

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