On 2019-05-29 4:15 p.m., jmcquown wrote:

>> I haven't made jello in so long I didn't even know you were supposed
>> to cook it.
>>
> Sorry to barge in.Â* It's not "cooking".Â* You have to boil some water.
> Then stir the Jell-O powder into it.Â* Then pour it into a bowl or a mold
> and add cold water (ice cubes if you want a quick set) then put it in
> the refrigerator.Â* If you want to add fruit, you do it before you put it
> in the fridge.

I used to date a girl who had an older sister who was such a bad cook
that she could not make Jell-O. One cup of boiling water and then one
cup of cold water. It couldn't be much easier, but she found a way....
two cups of warm water.

Lucky for her she had a boyfriend who was as stupid as she was. They
went out snowmobiling and went through thin ice..... twice.



>
> I have never added fruit to Jell-O but I've certainly heard about it
> here over the years.Â* Also from having some very old "dessert" cookbooks
> which often mention the use of fruit in Jell-O.
>
> I'd rather just eat fruit than suspend it in a gelatin concoction.
>

When I was a kid my parents were friends with an elderly couple who had
a great fruit and vegetable garden and she used to make jelly desserts
with gelatin and pureed fresh fruits. They were delicious. They had
distinct fruit flavours. The raspberry tasted like raspberry, strawberry
like strawberry and cherry like cherry, not just slightly different
flavours of red jello that don't really taste like the fruit they are
labelled to be.