"In the 1950s, there were a lot of people cooking who didn't really like cooking," she said. "The convenience of gelatin salads definitely had something to do with it.

This delightfully retro cherry Jell-O salad brings back memories of church potlucks and family gatherings from the 1960s and ...

If you delve into the world of vintage gelatin recipes, you will undoubtedly discover numerous retro Jello salad recipes.

This recipe for Jell-O salad dates back to the 1950s. It seems, at first glance, like something that would’ve disappeared after the Jell-O-crazed cooking movement of the ’50s and ’60s. But thanks to ...

When you think of vintage recipes, jello salad is often the first one that comes to mind. Once a 1950s status symbol, jello today is not quite used in the same ways.

In 2015, YouTuber and vintage recipe enthusiast ThisMidlifeMillennial tried a vintage Thanksgiving leftover Jell-O recipe from a 1975 cookbook called "Carefree Cooking with Aluminum Foil." ...

"They've been digging up old recipe books, and even better, people's grandmothers' recipe cards, and making all of these recipes that probably seem pretty wacky to anyone who grew up more recently ...

But back in the 1950s, when Jell-O was peaking in popularity, congealed salads, variously known as jellied salads, molded salads and aspic, were the thing in entertaining.

"WHAT HAS OCCURRED CANNOT BE UNDONE," she wrote on Twitter. "I have trained a neural net on a crowdsourced set of vintage jello-centric recipes[.] I believe this to possibly be the worst recipe ...