I have a friend who is searching for a jello salad recipe that includes Vienna sausage.

Background story: She has taken salads, good ones not based on jello, to potlucks at which her husband's mormon relatives were in attendance. The mormons refused to touch the non-jello salads.

To avoid this humiliation in the future, she would like to take a jello-based salad next time, but can't find a recipe for the salad that was popular at earlier potlucks.

Can anyone help?

http://www.amazon.com/No-Man-Knows-Pastries-Christensen/dp/1560850280

This should keep her in-laws in pot-luck heaven for the rest of her marriage.

having actually seen jello with meat in it. To which company in his presence usually say, really? Are you sure? He then has some self-doubts about it since it probably happened in childhood.

oh my

It has jus been processed to the point where all beefy flavor has been removed.

From Wikipedia:
"Gelatin (or gelatine) is a translucent, colorless, brittle (when dry), flavorless solid substance, derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones."

that IS actually bits of meat held together by gelatin.

I'm sorry, but that is different than Jello (red strawberry for example) with meat in it.

Thanks, jaredsotherbrother. The "Mountain Meadows Muffins" are tempting.

In reference to "No Man Knows My Pastries," ... "Sweet and Sour Spam," really? Really?

If that one doesn't work for her, my mother-in-law has a lemon & shrimp jello salad that has celery and other items in it I've never been able to identify. I think I have the recipe around here somewhere but as a disclaimer, none of my husband's Mormon relatives are that fond of it. I'm the only one who will choke it down and only because my mother was big on having good manners and not hurting people's feelings, even if it means swallowing jello and shrimp together with a smile on your face.

CA girl, I'll take the lemon and shrimp jello salad recipe. One always needs a backup.

OK, I'll look for it - or I'll ask my MIL for a copy.

Itzpapalotl, go ahead and post your recipe that commits a crime against shrimp and lemons with jello.

You can never have too many mormon jello recipes.

And my friend is desperate.

1 3 oz package lemon gelatin

1 1/2 cups boiling water

1/2 cup ketchup

1 small can shrimp ( you can used thawed salad shrimp as well)

1cup chopped celery
1 tsp grated onion
1 cup cooked peas
10 stuffed olives sliced

1. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water
2. Add ketchup and let set until slightly congealed, then add remaining ingrdients.
3. Mix well, pour into desired mold and let set till firm. Top with the following:

Dressing
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 TBS cream
1 hard-boiled egg, peeled and minced

Mix all ingrdients together, chill and top the mold.

I juts want to say, I have never made this and it really scares the hell outta me someone came up with it.

Thank you!

Proof that mormons care nothing for this life on earth, and that they want to prove their minds on building the Kingdom by refusing to eat "elitist" foods.

That should be "prove their minds are on building the Kingdom..."

I should proofread.

I have a couple of "Women's Circle" cookbooks from the late 80's that I keep around. My TBM mother, who is a queen of Mormon cooking, bestowed them on me when I left for BYU. Some recipes are delicious and very budget friendly, but others I wonder WTF?!?

I threw up in my mouth twice while reading, and imagining eating that recipe. I'll happily eat anything from damn near any part of an animal, but that jello montrosity was going a bit far.

On the other hand, replace the lemon Jello with gelatin made with a nice shrimp stock, replace the peas with fresh grated horseradish, replace the mayonaise with creme fraiche and the cream with mayonaise, add some Italian parsley, and you might have a nice first course.

Is that what is referred to as aspic?

I HATE most Jello concoctions. My mom always made my siblings and I eat it on a slice of iceberg lettuce topped with generic Miracle Whip or cottage cheese. Ick. One of my sisters to this day refuses to eat iceberg lettuce.

Jello should only have fruit, alcohol, or soda added for fun.

Yes, that would be an aspic.

I just realized, in over 25 years of enthusiastic apostacy, I've never had a jello shot.

Peas and ketchup too!

What a bonus.

I am so tempted to order that book!

I highly recommend it. The writing and the photos are hilarious. It was first given to me by an exmo publishers rep in NYC after we spent a Guinness fueled evening trading MorMo stories and discussing mainstream MorMo/exMorMo authors.

The very thought of sausages in jello makes me queasy. Surely nobody would that!

You must not have ever eaten Vienna Sausages. They are packed in a clear jelly like substance that looks a lot like snot.

That's gelatin. Jello is a brand name that's always flavored and sweetened AFAIK. Lemon, lime, raspberry, etc.

For anyone who wants to combine processed gelatin with Vienna sausages, help is needed. Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to give that kind of help.

Old Joke= Q:Where do Vienna sausages come from anyway? A:You never heard of the Vienna boy's choir?

How they must hate it when civilisation impinges on their lives.

Type in jello abominations into your search engine, or use Julie and Jello. Maybe you could use her molded ham recipe and use the sausages instead

I draw the line at fruit in jello. Carrots and any other substance are unacceptable.

Half a container of Cool-Whip on top is of course mandatory.

Gawd, when my dad died, one of the sweet sisters sent over a jello "salad" with ground beef, noodles, beans and jello. It was vomitous.

Those ingredients sound like the combination of things that might collect in the garbage disposal right before it's time to clear it out.

It also brought back memories of slopping the pig.

I had to google that. The closest thing I could find was grape jelly and vienna sausage are a great consistency for ballistics testing. That seems like an appropriate use to me.