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Spring is almost here! And I immediately started thinking of all the gelatin things I am going to make this spring and summer. While sifting through the archives to remind myself of what we’ve made already, I came across this doozy of a recipe that originally posted during our gelatin contest and I knew I had to reshare it. Enjoy!

Want to see something scary?

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Behold! Jellied cottage cheese and tomato sauce served over coleslaw! It looks…horrible. Like a melting monster face with a green pepper tongue. Appetizing, huh?

AuthorRetroRuth
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From Woman's Day Kitchen, June 1948

Tested Recipe!

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 1 envelope plain gelatin
 ¼ cup cold water
 ½ cup boiling water
 ½ tsp salt
 1 grated onion
 2 tbsp vinegar
 ½ pound cottage cheese
 8 oz canned tomato sauce
 Cole slaw
 green pepper rings

1

Soak gelatin in cold water; add boiling water and stir until dissolved. Add salt, onion, and vinegar. Add 3 tablespoons of this gelatin liquid to cottage cheese.

2

To remaining gelatin liquid, add tomato sauce. Pour half of tomato mixture into a lightly oiled mold; chill until set (Keep cottage cheese and remaining tomato mixture at room temperature.) and top with cottage cheese mixture. Chill until set and cover with the remaining tomato mixture.

3

To serve, unmold on slaw; garnish with pepper.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

 1 envelope plain gelatin
 ¼ cup cold water
 ½ cup boiling water
 ½ tsp salt
 1 grated onion
 2 tbsp vinegar
 ½ pound cottage cheese
 8 oz canned tomato sauce
 Cole slaw
 green pepper rings

Directions

1

Soak gelatin in cold water; add boiling water and stir until dissolved. Add salt, onion, and vinegar. Add 3 tablespoons of this gelatin liquid to cottage cheese.

2

To remaining gelatin liquid, add tomato sauce. Pour half of tomato mixture into a lightly oiled mold; chill until set (Keep cottage cheese and remaining tomato mixture at room temperature.) and top with cottage cheese mixture. Chill until set and cover with the remaining tomato mixture.

3

To serve, unmold on slaw; garnish with pepper.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings

Jellied Cottage Cheese And Tomato Salad

This recipe was sent in by Rachel for our gelatin contest, and she was nice enough to send with it a picture.

But no matter how nice it looks in the picture, its still made with cottage cheese and tomato sauce.

Not that I have anything against those things, separately.

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In fact, I love cottage cheese. I was actually excited about this one. I love cottage cheese, tomato sauce AND coleslaw. Having them all together in one dinner sounded like a great idea to me. Tom, on the other hand, not such a big fan.

“Oh God, cottage cheese?”

“Yep.”

“So, what is it going to be like, lime gelatin, cottage cheese and fruit?”

“Nope.”

“Oh. So are we going to spoon it over the top or something?”

“Nope. There is a layer of unflavored gelatin with just cottage cheese in it.”

“Oh God. Wait…what’s the other layer?”

“Tomato sauce.”

“You have got to be kidding me.”

“There is an onion in it, too.”

“God.”

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The layer of tomato sauce!

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Aaaaaand…the “finished” product. Not sure what exactly happened here. Maybe the cottage cheese in the picture was creamier than the one I used. Maybe the mold they used was a little smaller. Maybe they greased their mold instead of unmolding it with hot water. In any case, this is what we had to work with.

“Uck.”

“What?”

“It looks like it’s bleeding.”

“Ew. It kind of does, doesn’t it?”

We just stared at it for a bit, then I clapped my hands together.

“Well, eat up!”

Tom Tasting

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“Oh.”

“Bad, huh?”

“This does not taste good at all. And the texture is gross.”

The Verdict: Gross

From the Tasting Notes:

While Tom has never been a big fan of tomato and cottage cheese, I like both of these things. And even to me the taste was…less than good. Not exactly sure what the problem was, maybe the grated onion, but the flavors just didn’t go together. And the texture WAS gross. The jellied cottage cheese layer tasted exactly like what it was; jellied cottage cheese. Besides the fact that this thing turned out really, really ugly, the flavor made it an all-around bad recipe. It would have been way easier and much more tasty to just spoon cottage cheese into hollowed out tomatoes and serve those over coleslaw.

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