SWEETEN HOUSE RICE CONFETTI (with Pecans)

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 Recipes^TM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3^rd 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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See also…

Mondays & Memories of My Mom – Stories Of Our Family