What’s old is new again. We’re all plunging into grandma’s recipe box for a delicious dessert, asking mom for help with a classic Sunday chicken dinner and even thinking about some old-fashioned ...

What Ingredients Do You Need for Dolly Parton’s Cranberry Jell-O Mold? Like most of the post-war Jell-O mold recipes of yesteryear, Dolly’s cranberry Jell-O mold relies primarily on shelf-stable ...

For today’s readers, 20th-century recipes involving Jell-O molds—where fruit, vegetables, or even seafood is suspended in a mass of gelatin—can be creepy enough. But AI researcher Janelle Shane, known ...

Before the anticipation of who would get the choicest, crispiest piece of turkey skin or the angst over whether you really could handle a second piece of pie, there was one suspenseful moment around ...

If you’ve ever gone through a vintage cookbook you’ve probably come across a few questionable JELL-O recipes, with many calling for layering the wiggly substance. Thankfully, our next guest is here ...

The winter holidays are here, which for many means a bounty of joy, gratitude and, at least for a couple decades there in the mid-1900s, a frightening volume of gelatin. A succulent spiral ham. A ...

As I scanned through my Nanny's recipe book, I was surprised to find old flattened Jell-O boxes and several Jell-O mold recipes. She was a scratch baker, so I assumed this was not a typical dessert ...

Standing in his Culver City test kitchen, chef Sang Yoon is holding what looks like a freshly used bar of soap, in a soap dish. “So, it’s basically a Jell-O shot,” says Yoon of the dish, barely ...

I find retro recipes, particularly those from the 1950s and 60s, incredibly fascinating. I’m especially intrigued (and perplexed by) the Jell-O fascination that seized hold of American households ...