SWEETEN HOUSE RICE CONFETTI (with Pecans)
By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 278). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).]
INGREDIENTS:
3-ounce box strawberry or raspberry Jell-O gelatin
¾ cups sugar
2 cups cooked, cold rice (not instant)
1 cup chopped pecans
8-ounce can crushed pineapple, well-drained
10-ounce jar maraschino cherries, drained and each cut in half
2 cups miniature marshmallows
1 cup whipping cream, whipped with 3 tablespoons powdered sugar –
Or use a 9-ounce carton Cool Whip, thawed
INSTRUCTIONS:
Prepare Jell-O as box directs, stirring sugar into hot Jell-O before it has a chance to thicken. Chill until wiggly but not firm. Stir in cold rice and remaining ingredients in the order given above. Turn into lightly oiled 1 ½-quart container.
Cover and refrigerate several hours, or overnight, until firm. As a dessert, serve it in 6 goblet-style glasses. As a salad, serve it on 6 lettuce-lined luncheon plates.
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