Best 12 My Grandmas Homemade Cranberry Salad Recipes

GRANDMA FREEL'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Stir cranberries, sugar, and water together in a saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring often, until most of the berries have popped open, about 20 minutes.
• Remove saucepan from heat. Stir gelatin into the cranberries mixture until dissolved completely; add celery, apple, and pecans and stir. Pour into a glass 13x9-inch dish.
• Refrigerate until set in the center, 10 to 12 hours.

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.)

HOLIDAY CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir together the cranberries, pineapple (with juice) and sugar. Let stand for about an hour, to let sugar dissolve, and then pour the mixture into a strainer over a bowl. Let drain, covered, in the refrigerator for at least two hours, or overnight. (Note: The drippings make a wonderful cranberry punch, when mixed with lemon-lime soda!)
• Before serving, whip the cream until soft peaks form. (You can sweeten the whipped cream with a little sugar, if desired.) In a large bowl, mix together the cranberry mixture, walnuts and marshmallows. Fold in the whipped cream and store in refrigerator until serving.

GRANDMA'S CRANBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Place the cranberries, oranges, apples, pecans, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor. Process until all ingredients are evenly ground, 2-3 minutes. Pour mixture into a bowl, cover, and refrigerate at least 2 days before serving.

GRANDMA'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Dissolve jello in hot water.
• Chill until slightly thickened.
• Combine cranberries, pineapple, sugar, nuts, celery and grapes. Stir into thickened jello.
• Pour into large salad bowl and refrigerate until serving.

GRANDMA B'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Use the reserved pineapple juice to make the 4 cups of water.
• Combine sugar, cranberries, pineapples and nuts in a large bowl.
• In a smaller bowl mix Jello with hot water/Juice till Jello is dissolved.
• Combine both the cranberries and Jello.
• Chill till firm.

GRANDMA'S CRANBERRY STUFF

Steps:

• Cut unpeeled orange into wedges, removing any seeds, and place in a food processor. Add cranberries and sugar; pulse until chopped. Add walnuts; pulse just until combined.

GRANDMA RUBY'S CRANBERRY SALAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Boil the first three ingredients together for 5 minutes. Add the marshmallows and the jello. Stir until the marshmallows have dissolved. Let it cool. When it is cool, add the cup of cold water, nuts, apples and celery. Pour into a 9" square dish and refrigerate until solid and ready to serve. (I usually make this in a clear, square glass dish because it looks pretty from the sides. I serve it cut into small squares because it seems nicer to me than a big glop from a spoon.)

GRANDMA'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Mix two packages jello with 3 cups hot water. Let cool. Grind cranberries and peeled orange. Add to cooled jello mixture. Add sugar to jello and mix. Let set for a few minutes.
• Dice celery and apples. Drain crushed pineapple. Add celery, apples, nuts and crushed pineapple to jello mixture. Add cinnamon and mix all together.
• Pour into a 13x9 pan and refrigerate.

GRANDMA'S CRANBERRY RELISH

Steps:

• Wash and drain cranberries.
• Cut whole orange into quarters.
• Chop in food processor until pieces are minced. You may need to do this in portions depending on the size of your food processor.
• Pour into a bowl and mix in sugar.
• Allow to rest in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• Serve with turkey, ham, or your favorite holiday meal.

BIGMOM'S CRANBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• Place the cranberries in a food processor. Process until coarsely chopped. Transfer the cranberries to a large bowl, and stir in the pineapple, apple, celery, and sugar. Combine the gelatin and boiling water in a separate bowl, stirring until gelatin dissolves. Pour gelatin mixture into the pineapple mixture; stir to combine. Cover and refrigerate until gelatin sets, about 2 hours.

MY GRANDMA FRANCES' CRANBERRY PINEAPPLE SALAD

Steps:

• 2 days before serving the salad:.
• Grind cranberries in a food processor and mix them in a large bowl with sugar.
• Store, covered, in frig.
• 1 day before serving the salad:.
• Add crushed pineapple (with liquid) and marshmallows to cranberry mixture.
• Refrigerate, covered.
• Day of serving the salad:.
• Whip the cream and fold into fruit mixture.
• Serve chilled.