Grandmas Candle Salad Recipes

GRANDMA'S MACARONI SALAD

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook elbow macaroni in the boiling water, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes. Drain well; rinse with cold water and drain again.
• Reserve 2 tablespoons relish juice; place the rest in a large bowl with onion, bell pepper, carrot, and egg.
• Whisk creamy salad dressing into reserved relish juice. Mix in sour cream, milk, sugar, dill, salt, and pepper. Fold gently into the macaroni mixture. Refrigerate to let flavors blend, 4 to 24 hours.

GRANDMA'S CANDLE SALAD

Steps:

• Place lettuce leaf on a plate.
• Add cottage cheese.
• Add pineapple ring.
• Put half of banana on pineapple ring.
• Dab (mayonnaise) salad dressing on top of banana.
• Place cherry on top.

GRANDMA'S SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve the jello with the hot water.
• Add thawed strawberries and can of pineapple, stirring to combine.
• Pour into a 9x13 glass pan.
• Refrigerate until set.
• Combine topping ingredients well, and spread over the jello layer.
• Cut into squares to serve.

ANOTHER 1950S PICTURE SALAD: CANDLE SALAD

Steps:

• Blend the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon together with a mixer. Reserve.
• Peel bananas and cut in half crosswise. Remove the tips.
• Divide the lettuce among 4 plates Place a pineapple ring in the center of each plate. Fill the center with reserved cream cheese mixture. Place a banana (pointed end up) upright in the center of pineapple ring. Top the banana with a gumdrop "flame." Squeeze a little cream cheese m mixture onto the tip of each "candle" to represent wax.
• NOTE: As an alternate to the cream cheese mixture above, mix two tablespoons mayonnaise and 1 tablespoon peanut butter. Pour over "candle." Use a maraschino cherry for the "flame" instead of the gumdrop.