Jell-O, Jello, Gelatin and Pudding Treats
Easy Jello recipes using everyday ingredients found in most kitchens.
In 1897, fifty-two
years after philanthropist Peter Cooper obtained the first patent for a gelatin dessert,
Pearl B. Wait, a carpenter and cough medicine manufacturer from LeRoy, New York, came up
with a fruit-flavored version of Cooper's gelatin. It was christened Jell-O gelatin by his
wife, May Davis Wait, and was available in strawberry, raspberry, orange, and
lemon flavors.
Frustrated
with poor sales, Wait sold the Jell-O gelatin business for $450 to his LeRoy neighbor,
Orator Francis Woodward, an entrepreneur who had founded the Genesee Pure Food Company two
years earlier.
Woodward's first year sales of
Jell-O gelatin were so poor that one day, after touring the plant and seeing cases of
Jell-O piled high, he offered the business to his plant superintendent for $35, a new low
for the fledgling product. The offer was refused.
With the turn of the century came a
new lease on life for the Jell-O company. Helped along by Woodward's creative sales and
sampling strategies, Jell-O gelatin began to catch on. In 1902, when Woodward launched his
first advertising campaign in Ladies' Home Journal, sales reached $250,000. The
3-inch ad, costing $336, featured smiling fashionably coifed women in white aprons
proclaiming Jell-O gelatin "America's Most Famous Dessert™."
Salads
7-UP Jello Salad
Apricot
Jello Salad
Apricot Banana Jello Sallad
Blueberry Jello Salad
Carrot and Cabbage
Jello Salad
Cherry Pie Filling Jello
Salad
Cranberry Jello Salad
Cranberry Jello Mold #2
Jello Carrot Veggie
Salad
Jello Cottage Cheese and
Pineapple Salad
Strawberry Kiwi Jello Mold
Lemonade Jello Salad
Lemon Beet Jello Salad
Lemon Jello Salad with
Grapes
Lime Seafoam Salad
Shrimp Mold Salad
Strawberry Banana Jello Mold
Strawberry Cream Cheese Jello Mold
Strawberry Jello Mold
Strawberry Pretzel Salad
Three Layer Jell-O Mold
Desserts
Orange Jello Dessert
Orange Sherbet Jello
Dessert
Pear and Cream Cheese Jello
Dessert
Raspberry Jello Salad
with Sour Cream Topping
Strawberry Banana Jello Mold
Strawberry Dessert
Strawberry Jello Pie
Strawberry Pie
Candy
Coconut Jello Candy
Cakes
Jello Bundt Cake
Jello Poke Cake
Strawberry Jello Cake
Diet/Reduced Calorie
Diet Apple Jello Snack
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