Monday, November 23, 2009

White Salad





White "salad" is one of our family favorite holiday recipes. It's sort of like a coeur la creme, but without the draining process and fancy special mold. I think my mom started serving it for dessert several Christmas's ago, but these days it shows up on our Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter tables. We've given it the "salad" moniker, so we don't feel guilty about eating something that is nearly cheesecake for dinner! We let it take the place of some other not-so-exciting holiday jello salad.

Recipe -

1 cup of sour cream
1 cup of heavy whipping cream
3/4 cup sugar
1 envelope of Knox gelatin
1/4 cup water
8 oz softened cream cheese
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Combine sour cream and heavy cream in a medium saucepan. Stir in sugar. Place on low heat. Sprinkle gelatin over the quarter cup of water to soften. Stir the gelatin and water mixture in to the cream mixture and remove from heat. In a separte bowl beat the cream cheese until it's smooth. Then, and in the cream mixture and vanilla and whip with beaters until smooth. Transfer to jello mold and refrigerate. (Pictured is a double batch.)


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20 comments:

  1. I've never seen that before -- what a fun family tradition. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  2. Um ... YUM !!!! Can you mail that to NYC ?

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  3. I've never seen a white salad. It is gorgeous. Thanks for posting. I'll be making this soon :)

    Blessings!
    Gail

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  4. I have never heard or seen this WONDERFUL!!! salad. Looks AWESOME!!!
    Geri

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  5. This is a first for me too! Thanks for sharing...I will definitely make it.

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  6. This looks very yummy! I love that you call it salad :)

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  7. A white salad is new to me! It looks really interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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  8. That looks so pretty, I had to see what on earth a white salad is!

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  9. A Coeur a la creme substitute--very interesting. Does it taste much like coeur a la creme?

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  10. Very interesting and tasty ingredients. Thank you for participating in Vintage Recipe Thursday. :-)

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  11. How cool is that? I've never done a mold recipe.

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  12. That looks so lovely. I think I'd have to serve it for dessert here in England though. I've been trying for years to get folks to eat jellied salads for the main course, but whenever I put them on a buffet people insist they are for dessert and give me really funny looks. I love dishes like your white salad with the main course - that's what holidays are all about - indulgence! Besides, it's got fruit on it so it has to be good for you :)

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  13. I've never heard of this either, but it sure looks lovely! I imagine it would be very versatile. Thanks for sharing!

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  14. Now that's my kind of "salad"! It looks so fancy and it's full of cream cheese! Yum!

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  15. I have never seen a recipe like this before! I will have to try it, maybe for Christmas.

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  16. Wow, this looks so neat. It's the first time I've heard of this.

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  17. This is a beautiful salad. I love the many things that you can do with it. Thank you for sharing and you have a very Merry Christmas!

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  18. I love family recipes. I like salads like that...lol...

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  19. That looks like a fabulous dessert!

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  20. The dessert really looked good! Never heard of this recipe before. Thank you for sharing it!!

    Lori

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