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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™."

Apricot Jello Mold
Apricot and Orange Jello Salad
Beet Jello Salad
Bing Cherry Jello Mold
Blueberry Jello Salad
Carrot Cabbage Jello Salad
Cherry Pie Jello Salad
Christmas Jello Salad Mold
Colorful Jello Cake
Cranberry Jello Mold
Cranberry and Strawberry Jello Mold
Festive Jello Mold
Ice Cream Jello Mold
Jello Balls
Jello Cake
Jello Apples
Jello Apples #2
Jello Dream Whip Salad Mold
Jello Fluff
Jello Fudge Sandwiches
Jello Mold
Jello Poke Cake
Jello Pound Cake
Jello Southern Pudding Pie
Jello Veggies
Lemon Cloud Jello Mold
Lemon Grape Jello Mold
Lime Jello Mold
Mandarin Orange Jello Mold
Molded Jello Sea Salad
Orange Pineapple Jello Mold
Pineapple Cream Cheese Jello Mold
Pineapple Green Jello Mold
Pineapple Jello
Pineapple Jello Mold
Pineapple Strawberry Jello
Pretzel Crust Jello Salad
Raspberry Jello Salad
Raspberry Pear Jello Salad
Seven-Up (7-Up) Jello Salad
Shrimp Jello Mold
Strawberry Banana Jello Mold
Strawberry Cream Cheese Jello Mold
Strawberry Jello Mold
Strawberry Jello Pie
Strawberry Kiwi Jello Mold
Three Layer Jello Mold