Moore’s Cranberry Gelatin Salad

Very similar to a long-used family Thanksgiving must have for us. TIPS AND CHANGES WE MAKE: We usually use Black Cherry flavored Jell-O, canned crushed pineapple*, no orange (they just add more liquid), less sugar. IMPORTANT! The canned crushed pineapple may contain A LOT of sugar. If you aren’t using sugar-free, you must lower the amount of sugar in the recipe or it will extremely sweet. This is also the case if you use the drained pineapple juice when preparing the Jell-O. I prefer to push the crushed pineapple against a fine sieve to completely drain it and save the juice for another use. This keeps the mixture dry enough for the Jell-O to PROPERLY SET. The setting dish used can also change the time needed for your Jell-O to set. The more shallow the dish, the faster it will set. You can easily transfer big spoonfuls into a clear or otherwise festive dish for the table. This cranberry salad is a wonderful, bright tasting surprise among the heavier traditional Thanksgiving sides.

A similar recipe had been a traditional holiday side dish that my Dad made for many years. He asked me to take over a couple of years ago. Last year, I couldn’t find the recipe so I made this one instead. He loved it more than his original recipe. The only thing I do different is add about 1/2 cup (heaping) toasted chopped pecans. Delicious!

This is very similar to the cranberry salad my mother made in the 40s, just leave out grapes and orange. I made it for years in a meat (food) grinder. My family makes it in food processor, but results are always 5 stars.

I have been making this for years, and everyone loves it!

My jello did not set. Only after this blunder did I notice that it says on the jello box NOT to use fresh pineapple. It would have been helpful to say ‘use only canned pineapple’ in the ingredients list.

This is almost like the one my mother made (from back in the 50’s) -she never gave me the recipe, but she used black cherry jello and added Coke to the jello (in place of or partially for the cold water). She also cooked the cranberries til popped and cut up a peeled orange and chopped celery and walnuts. If anyone has this recipe -please let me know! This one comes really close.

25 years ago I made a cranberry Jell-O salad with a cream cheese “frosting”. I LOVED it, couldn’t find the one I had made all those years ago. 🙁 I decided to take liberties and add the cream cheese to this faceless beauty. I just added a 1/4 cup of powdered sugar and a tsp. of vanilla extract to 2 blocks of CC. The Jell O is plenty sweet enough, that’s why I cut back on the sugar. Make sense? Mary I Hope you will forgive me for tweaking your dessert a bit. I have a Cara Cara orange tree in my back yard. If you aren’t familiar with them, they are a red fleshed navel orange that are low in acid and high in sweetness, Great orange! I took the zest off, discarded the pith and ground up the flesh, zest & cranberries in the FP. This is just the Best as it practically Screams Christmas!! Please try this, you won’t be sorry you did! Thank You Mary, Merry Christmas!!

Much better than regular old canned cranberry sauce! Mother made this during the Christmas Holidays also.(except without the grapes)

I was trying to figure out a way to get the kids to eat their cranberries at Thanksgiving and figured there was no better way than in a jello! For the most part it worked! The adults liked it too, and I actually preferred it over the actual cranberry sauce. I will make this again, and not just during the holidays.

good salad I added a topping of half cup sour cream blended with 16 on cream cheese

So tasty, I could and have eaten this for dessert! I use my little chopper from Tupperware to chop the cranberries. Also I use canned mandarin oranges in place of the orange it calls for. I add chopped pecans too. Very good!

A huge Thanksgiving hit. I added a top layer of 8oz. Cream Cheese 1 cup Greek Yogurt, 3 talbesppons of Sugar and 1/2 cup of Chopped Pecans after the salad was firm. Lots of bright flavors!

I loved this. I peeled my orange and all I had was cheery jello and I totally forgot to add the apples. It was still really good!

Absolutely loved this recipe!! It will from now on be a Thanksgiving staple at my home. Followed the recipe w/ few exceptions. Used one cranberry flavored gelatin and one raspberry. Also left out the grapes. The flavor is amazing. All of them blend together beautifully. My favorite is the orange smell and flavor. Thank you for sharing your recipe 🙂

i brought this to work for a pot luck christmas lunch….everyone loved it. the only change i made was to add cardamon…probably about a tbsp as i doubled the recipe. it was excellent

Absolutely delicious! The sweet/tart blend is just right and the orange really adds to the flavor of it.

This turned out to be awesome! I would give it 5 stars but I had to change some things according to what ingerdients I had. I used cranberry jello, can pineapple chunks, sweetened cranberries, and cherries. I didn’t have an orange so I used a can of mandarin oranges. I also used only 1/2 cup sugarand a little less water——it was soooo good!!!

Before I even know what this recipe taste like, I am in a dilemma. I followed the recipe exactly to the dot, but not knowingly, used fresh pineapple juice I have on hand. Then I discover that the jello won’t set. I think if the recipe had warned that only canned pineapple to be used, I would be in a better spot right now. So warning to all newbies like me.

I made this recipe for my Very First Thanksgiving Dinner and it was delicious! my family loved it! Thanks for sharing this recipe with us.

I made this for ’08 Thanksgiving’s dinner. It was really good.

My children and I enjoyed making this salad together. My husband who is the cranberry fan in our family, liked this recipe and asked me to make it again. This is a keeper!