Neoma's Cranberry Salad

I must admit when I was a kid I never really liked cranberry salad but it was always something that got put on your plate for you to "try" ... just in case you remembered it wrong from the year before. LOL Got to love being a kid! 

I think that it is a salad that your taste buds have to grow into, because surprisingly I actually like cranberry salad now. I must say that of all the different cranberry salad recipes I have tried this one is still my favorite. Although we have made a slight alteration to it by adding an orange, which is an adaptation from my Grandma Alice's recipe. Now it has just enough citrus zing to offset the tart cranberries. It's like a party in your mouth!

-Jennifer Figgins

daughter of Jesse Figgins and Mary Bryan

Cranberry Salad

Aunt Neoma and Grandma Alice Bryan

Ingredients:

2 packages strawberry jello

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 can crushed pineapple

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup chopped nuts

optional: 1 orange, finely ground.

Use a food processor to chop up the cranberries.

Dissolve jello in boiling water according to directions on packaged.

Add rest of ingredients and refrigerate.

Serves: 15

*Grandma Alice Bryan's recipe: add 1 whole orange, finely ground.

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This is another version of Aunt Neoma's Cranberry Salad that was sent to me by her son Mason. It is slightly different than the one I have of Aunt Neoma's but still sounds yummie! Thanks Mason!

Neoma's Cranberry Salad

Neoma Ridlen's handwriting and recipe.

Ingredients: 

2 cups ground cranberries

2 red apples ground

1 cup sugar

1 pkg jello dissolved 

zest and juice from one orange 

Mix all ingredients into dissolved jello.

Place in refrigerator to cool.