Salad ephemera from 1948

Another of the pamphlets I picked up in an antique shop, this one was issued by the Extension Service of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1948. It's only 12 pages, but the section on gelatin salads is interesting in that these were served in nearly every American household for a certain time and are still served and eaten with great relish at Church and Grange suppers throughout rural parts of the country. In some places in the midwest if you say you're going to bring the salad it means your going to bring a gelatin salad. So here are some scans.

I love old food illustrations. This thing was published the year I was born and I'm calling it vintage.

Gelatin salads start here.

I can't remember eating any of these growing up, but I do remember fruit salads made with jello.

I think I like the looks of the cranberry gelatin salad, mostly because I like cranberries a lot.