I’ve got to level with you: this recipe is awful. I’ve chosen to reproduce it here because it’s uniquely awful and worth preserving as a historical curiosity. The version below is lightly adapted from The Best of Beta Sigma Phi Cookbook (1991), which is a compilation of selected recipes from Beta Sigma Phi cookbooks in……
Ingredient: cola
Coca-Cola and Jell-O Salad with Cherries and Pineapple (Tennessee, 1978)
The 1978 Thorn Grove Baptist Church cookbook has a dozen different variants on the gelatin salad, which is common for cookbooks in this era. I love Jell-O, and I grew up in a community that loved these sorts of salads. Most were simple mixtures of flavored Jell-O and canned fruit, sometimes with added dairy or……