Aunt Pearl's Orange Cream Pineapple Salad

I had a maiden Aunt,

Aunt Pearl

Since she never married, she continued living with her mother

until her mother passed away.

She had a job -- not a career

And when I spent a summer week at Grandma's, I thought it was so exciting

that Aunt Pearl would get up in the morning, breakfast, get dressed

and then go off to "the office".

She worked for Safeway, a grocery company in the accounting office

And actually, I'm not sure what she really did

at "the office".

Since she always lived with her mother, her mother did all the cooking

or almost all --

Aunt Pearl at Christmas would make fudge and divinity

And often for Sunday dinner she would make her famous

(at least famous in our family)

Orange Cream Pineapple Salad

(or as we called it, orange jello salad)

It is one of those sweet and creamy jello salads

that so often are on the potluck table

that are really more of a dessert than a salad!

But it is good

Orange creaminess in a bowl

Always served in a glass bowl!

It made it's appearance Sunday for our family dinner.

I had thought that I did not have the recipe.

Something that got pitched when either Grandma passed away or

Aunt Pearl herself passed away.

For neither really kept recipe cards or folders

or even clipped recipes from the paper to try.

Grandma was not a really adventuresome cook, you see.

But then I was thumbing through the cookbook that Aunt Pearl's church put out

and although she never submitted a recipe for print,

she did write "the salad" recipe on an empty page!

And with the blobs, I assume that this is the exact copy she used.

The only change I made was that I used the small carton of Cool Whip instead of Dream Whip.

And why 10 small marshmallows, I don't have a clue.

10 BIG ones, yes -- but 10 small

I had many requests for this recipe when I did my post about Sunday Dinner

So I thought I would share.

For all my readers who wanted Aunt Pearl's Orange Jello Salad Recipe!