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Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert

Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert is an easy dessert that you can make from a few items in the pantry and freezer at any time of the year. It works well for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mother's Day, bridal or baby showers, etc. It is sweet and rich, yet somehow also seems light and refreshing. It is a rather nostalgic dessert as it reminds me a little of an orange push-up ice cream treat from my childhood. Plus, it is a molded gelatin dessert, which always reminds me of the past. As with other gelatin and fruit dishes, someone might call this a "Jello salad" in the United States. However, this recipe uses an entire quart of orange sherbert in addition to gelatin, so I can not bring myself … Continue Reading about Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert

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Seven 1970’s Recipes, Recipe 7: Nora’s Cherry Cheesecake

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This was a no-bake cheesecake my aunt made in the 1970’s and gave me the recipe.  It was one of my favorites.  It is the first “cheese cake” I had ever had.

My daughter LOVES cheesecake and was super excited I would make her one – even though it does not look or taste like what she is used to eating (we just buy a baked cheesecake slice as dessert on a special occasion at a restaurant).

Recipe: Nora’s Cherry Cheesecake

Ingredients

  • Crust: 2 c. graham cracker crumbs
  • 2 tbps. sugar
  • 1 stick oleo
  • Filling: 8 oz. cream cheese
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 2 pkgs. Dream Whip
  • 2 cans cherry pie filling

Instructions

  1. Crust:  Ingredients should be at room temperature.
  2. Mix crumbs, sugar, and oleo.
  3. Divide and press mixture into bottom of two 9″ pie plates or use all in one 13 X 9 pan.
  4. Refrigerate.
  5. Filling:  Mix cream cheese until smooth.
  6. Add sugar and mix well.
  7. Mix 2 packages of Dream Whip according to directions on box.
  8. Fold whip into the cream cheese mixture and pour into graham cracker crust.
  9. Top with cherry pie filling.
  10. Chill

Variations

You can use pre-made graham cracker pie crusts instead. You can use only one can of filling if you do not want as much on top.

Comments

  1. Does anyone have my no bake cheesecake recipe from 1976 by Virginia White. It has a vanilla wafer, walnut, & butter crust that is pressed into a springform pan & baked 15 min. Then you make a custard with egg, milk, sugar & gelatin and chill it. Then you blend softened cream cheese with whipping cream, sugar, vanilla, and a couple drops of lemon juice. Then you fold in the rest of the whipped cream & blend with the custard mixture,pour into the crust and chill overnight.

  2. Anyone have a recipie with lime jello creme de mint and dream whip. You whipped it and it became very fluffy and light. That’s all I can remember about the recipie. My mom called it grasshopper and made it every Christmas while I was growing up. Could not find the recipie when she died and I would like to make it again. Any help would appreciated