Best Grammies Cranberry Salad Recipes

CLASSIC CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Bring the cranberries, brown sugar, and orange juice to a boil in a large saucepan over medium-high, stirring often. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until cranberries pop and mixture thickens, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat, and cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
• Stir in the Bartlett pears, pineapple, celery, and pecans. Transfer to a serving bowl; cover and chill salad 4 to 24 hours.

GRAMMIE'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Smash your whole cranberries up in a 3 quart sauce pan. Then, add your 3 cups water and jello then heat to boiling. Remove from stove and let it begin to set.
• 2. Once it starts to gel then add remaining ingredients of celery, nuts and pineapple.
• 3. Return to refrigerator and then serve it in a festive bowl.

GRANDMA'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Boil the cup of water. Dissolve the Jell-o in the hot water in an 8-inch square pan mix well. Add the sugar, lemon juice, and pineapple juice. Stir to dissolve well. Note: You can substitute the 8x8 dish and use a 9x13 dish, it seems to gel up a bit better that way.
• 2. Add the remaining ingredients and mix. Chill overnight.
• 3. Grandma's Notes: Chop up the pecans first before getting the blender wet. Or you could just buy pre-chopped pecans and save a step. Use the blender or food processor to chop up cranberries, then orange, seeded, and partially peeled. The chopped peel gives it that special zing!

CREAMY CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix first 6 ingredients. Refrigerate, covered, overnight., To serve, beat cream until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped cream and walnuts into cranberry mixture.

GRAMMY'S CRANBERRY JELLO SALAD

Steps:

• Drain pineapple, reserving juice.
• Add water to make 1 cup.
• Boil; add Jello, stirring to dissolve.
• Stir in ginger ale.
• Blend pineapple and cranberry sauce.
• Fold into Jello.
• Chill in 9x9 inch dish.
• Make Dream Whip according to package directions.
• Beat in cream cheese.
• Spread over Jello and top with pecans.
• May add 1/4 to 1/3 cup powdered sugar to topping, if desired.
• Skip the nuts if you don't like them. Also, I tend to buy two of the smaller cans of cranberry sauce, one jellied, one chunky -- I like the extra texture. AND -- make this the night before or your frosting will be runny!

CRANBERRY SALAD II

Steps:

• Combine the gelatin with hot water (don't let stand). Grind cranberries and orange (including rind) mix with sugar. Stir in nuts, celery and pineapple. Mix with prepared gelatin and chill.

GRANDMA'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Put cranberries in a food processor and blend until well chopped. Transfer cranberries to a large bowl, and mix in pineapple, pecans, marshmallows and sugar.
• In a medium bowl, beat cream with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped cream into cranberry mixture. Chill until ready to serve. (Or, freeze for 2 hours before serving.)

GRAMMY'S CRANBERRY SALAD EASY WAY

Steps:

• Place all ingredients (including orange zest, but not pith) into food processor in order listed. Pulse until well chopped.
• Refrigerate at least 1 hour. Keeps for up to 10 days, or freeze.