"A popular dish at Christmas time, mincemeat pies are a vintage recipe that has been enjoyed since the Middle Ages. Also known as mince pies, these treats were developed to last. Mincemeat was created to preserve meat without using the traditional methods of smoking, salting, or drying. A mince pie, which is mincemeat wrapped in pastry, was originally filled with meat, dried fruit, and spices like cinnamon and cloves."
"Thousands of Jell-O salad recipes, both sweet and savory, became popular, with one being the cranberry soufflé salad. Equally tart and sweet, the cranberry soufflé salad is the perfect substitute for that canned cranberry sauce everyone serves on Thanksgiving. The salad, which is typically served whole from a mold, is made with cranberry sauce and a packet of gelatin. The dish also contains mayonnaise, lemon juice, sugar, and pineapple."
Mincemeat pies originated in the Middle Ages as durable pastries designed to preserve meat using dried fruit and warm spices such as cinnamon and cloves. Preservation methods avoided smoking, salting, or drying by combining meat with fruits and spices inside pastry. Modern mincemeat pies are often small, sweet, citrusy desserts frequently made without meat and including ingredients like finely chopped apple and candied orange zest. The cranberry soufflé salad emerged from 1950s U.S. convenience cooking, using canned goods and a gelatin packet. The molded salad blends cranberry sauce with gelatin plus mayonnaise, lemon, sugar, pineapple, and sometimes walnuts or celery. Oyster stuffing also served as a longstanding American stuffing variation featuring oysters.
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