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
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