grandmother's lemon jello cake
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Pucker power from my grandmother. I remember asking an old lady once, when I was a young, what her favorite modern upgrade was. Her, comment was "running water."
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prep time
10 Min
cook time
method
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yield
8 serving(s)
Ingredients
- 1 package lemon jello
- 1 1/2 cups boiling water, plus sugar
- 2 - lemons juiced
- - grated rind of whole from the 2 lemon
- 1 can evaporated milk (chilled)
- 1 pound crushed coconut cookies or vanilla cookies
- 1/2 cup sugar
How To Make grandmother's lemon jello cake
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Step 1Butter a 12 inch Pyrex dish. In food processor, crumb the cookies. I know my grandmother didn't have a food processor and she used rolled pin to the cookies in a brown paper bag to make the crumbs, but we have modernized the kitchen a tad.
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Step 2Dissolve the lemon jello with the boiling water, sugar and the lemon juice and grated rind. Chill till a litte congealed. Beat it once it has congealed Beat the canned milk till thick and then add to beaten jello. Beat
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Step 3Pad 2/3 cup of crumbs to the butter pyrex dish, bottom and sides. Pour the jello and milk mixture on top of the crumbs, Add the rest of the crumbs to the top and refrigerate until well set. You could use Lime Jello, Lime juice with grated lime too. Or you can make it any flavor of Jello.
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