Memaw’s Lemon-Lime Jello Salad
This recipe for Lemon-Lime Jello Salad has been in my family for many years. My Memaw got the recipe from her cousin who always used to make it for company. When I was visiting Memaw on the Saturday before Easter, she had the recipe out on her side table, but she was sad because she didn’t have the ingredients to make it.
See how well worn the recipe is? Don’t you love the old fashioned handwriting? I love how it says “Method” for the directions.
I decided to surprise Memaw with this salad this past Sunday. She loved it!
Lemon-Lime Jello Salad
- 1 box lemon jello
- 1 box lime jello
- 1 cup hot water
- 8 oz pkg. cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups cold water
- 1 large can crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk (I didn’t say it was a healthy salad!)
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 – 1 cup chopped nuts
In a large bowl mix both packages of jello with hot water, stir well. Beat in softened cream cheese (at low speed!). Add cold water and stir. Add pineapple, sweetened condensed milk and mayonnaise, mix well. Sprinkle nuts on top and chill.
Enjoy!
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That look really yummy – especially as the weather gets warmer and warmer!! =)
My Granny Louise and my mamma made this salad for me while I was groaning up.
Yum! I remember that recipe well! It was from Bernice; right? I’m sure Memaw loved it!
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Mm-mm! Thank you! What a sweet gesture you did. This looks like something my Grandmother would have made. I love her Orange Salad, so I’m sure I’ll enjoy this.
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Yummy!! My Nanny made something very similar to that.
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Yum!
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What a great story. I love hand written recipes. I had my grandmother’s recipes laminated. They look so neat and old.
I can’t wait to make this recipe. Thanks for sharing it with us.
thanks for the recipe, I’m going to try making it, it looks delicious. I wish I still had my grandparents but I cherich all the memories. Hope you’re having a Happy Tuesday!
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@Maria, Let me know if you make it! I would love to hear how you like it! 🙂
Yummy! I remember my grandma making something similar, too. Brings back memories!
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YUMMMMM that looks and sounds delicious!! Thank you for sharing!
Myra, this was such a sweet thing for you to do for Memaw! And yes, the recipe was from Bernice! Always a hit! And full of memories!
When my grandmother passed away a few years ago, I flew down to Alabama for the services, and I came back with a suitcase full of all her recipes. I am trying to get them organized and scrapped, so I can make books for the rest of the family. Grandmother loved to cook, so this was the best way I could think of to keep her memory alive. What a blessing to have all these hand-written pieces of her!
So sweet of you to make your Memaw her jello salad! 🙂
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@Tori, Aww, Tori! I know you will treasure your Grandmother’s recipes forever. Thanks for sharing. 🙂 I live in AL too! 🙂
@Myra, Really? Very cool! I was actually born there, and still have much of my family in the south. 🙂
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I love this old fashioned salad, but I have not had it in years.
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Wow.
I’ve never had a jello salad and the ingredients sound refreshing but, I’m squeamish of jello salads 😉
Your picture’s great, though 😉 I love seeing what others eat and I ADORE that you took a pic of the recipe card.. that makes my heart smile.
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Yummy, yummy, YUMMY! This salad just looks like Spring 🙂 Thanks for the recipe, I think I’ll have to try that tonight.
I love the old, handwritten recipes that are handed down. My mom has a handwritten recipe book that is absolutely falling apart. I keep telling her that I need to copy it … maybe someday!
I love family recipes. There such a special momento that you can cherish and passed down for generations to come. The salad sounds wonderful by the way. I love jello fruit salads.
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I so love jello salads. No one serves them in California. Whats up with that?!
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LOVE the old recipe card! I make a similar recipe, only using strawberries in place of the lemon-lime. It was a recipe my husband’s grandmother would make. Her name was Nee Nee. So the recipe was called, “Nee Nee’s Pink Stuff”. I love family recipes and traditions. Thanks for sharing yours with us at TMTT, this week.
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Your lemon lime Jello is a variation of a recipe I made 30 years ago and made each holiday season for many years thereafter. This Thanksgiving, my son asked that I make the “Green Stuff” I use to make — but gosh where is the recipe — with a change here and there, this recipe is my Green Stuff.
My variation:
2 boxes of Lime Jello
1 large can crushed pineapple
Drain and preserve juice
To preserve pineapple juice add cold water (for 2 cups)
Your lemon lime Jello is a variation of a recipe I made 30 years ago and made each holiday season. My son asked that I make the “Green Stuff” I use to make.
My variation:
2 boxes of Lime Jello
1 large can crushed pineapple
Drain and preserve juice
To preserve pineapple juice add cold water (for 2 cups)
Your lemon lime Jello is a variation of a recipe I made 30 years ago and made each holiday season. My son asked that I make the “Green Stuff” I use to make.
My variation:
2 boxes of Lime Jello
1 large can crushed pineapple
Drain and preserve juice
To preserve pineapple juice add cold water (for 2 cups)
Every other ingredient is the same
I can’t believe it! I accidently ran into this page today. Getting ready for Thanksgiving and looking for recipes. My Mother always made this salad at every holiday. She called it “Dorothy Salad” and used cottage cheese instead of cream cheese but otherwise it’s identical. I wonder how many years this has been floating around and who started it!!!!!
Thanks for the memory…think I’ll make it this year for Thanksgiving!
Fabulous Genevieve! I love hearing stories like this! 😉 Happy Thanksgiving!!
have looked everywhere for this recipes
thank you
Hi…love this recipe..my aunt made it every Thanksgiving, but now, no one has the recipe.. Yoaks love your blogurs is the one..so excited to make it ..do I use small or large jello pkgs..? thanks, love your blog!
This is the same exact jello recipe thats been in my family for three generations! Your the only one’s that I know of with anything like this!
This sounds really good, but WHAT SIZE JELLO BOX?
what size jello – small or large???
Oh my! This is the exact same salad my grandma used to make and was always my favourite part of turkey dinner. I have never seen/meet someone else who knows the joy of eating this.
I was so glad to find this recipe! This has been a favorite of my family for ever! With a few changes! I could eat the whole “thang”
Oh my gosh!! I do remember this salad at all of our get togethers. Now, I’m going to let you know a little secret. My grandkids and great-grandkids call me Memaw!!!! Next time get the ingredients and bring them to Memaw and surprise her. Us Memaws put so much love into preparing dishes we have made for you kids and the pride we have watching all of you enjoy them. What you did was so sweet but, believe me, as long as your Memaw can cook help her do what she loves to do.
I make this with cottage cheese and add fruit flavored mini marshmallows, pecans, pineapple & it’s delicious!
Can this be made in a jello mold?