Hi everyone, welcome back to the kitchen today. We are traveling back in time
with another retro recipe by popular demand
we are going to continue doing our retro jello recipes and we're gonna build that jello playlist and today we continue
With Watergate salad, I can't wait to share with you how this all comes together
What it entails is two 20 ounce cans of crushed pineapple you're not going to drain these
two for serving size boxes of instant pistachio pudding
one cup of chopped pecans
two cups of miniature marshmallows and one small tub
This one happens to be ten ounces. There may be another brand that you like
Maybe it's the small tub is 8 ounces. Either one is fine
Whipped dessert topping now
This is straight up an original kind of recipe that came right out of that era where jell-o pudding and jello
gelatin were super popular and
Everybody was using it. I'm gonna say
There wasn't a holiday celebration in my youth where it didn't have a jell-o salad of some sort
Straight-up jell-o pudding salad or marshmallow salad?
Or you know something that was full of fruit cocktail or even a jello mold
I might add so my mom was really into the jello mold thing. So that was always fun
But not when it didn't come out that was not fun at all. So the way that we start this
Watergate salad is we're gonna go ahead and put our crushed pineapple in the bowl
We're gonna add our instant pudding and we're gonna go ahead and give this a stir and it's going to be some funky color
I'm gonna tell you that right now. This is a very bright salad
Just give this a really good stir and make sure everything is stirred in there really well
And there are gonna be a little you're gonna see a couple of dark flecks in here. This is from the pineapple
You can't really avoid that so don't even try it's not her juice just extra fiber and I even bought the brand name pineapple
So there we are all mixed up with our pudding and our pineapple go ahead and toss in your chopped nuts
I've used pecans you can use pistachios. You can use walnuts. You can use almonds in here you use whatever you want
Make it your own you can see how this is already starting to set up toss in our marshmallows. That's all mixed up
we're going to take
Our dessert topping and we're just gonna fold it in
Just keep folding until you don't see any more of that dark green color
You want this to be a nice light green and you want the color to be even that way?
You know that you've incorporated everything properly
Okay, I'm gonna go put this in a serving dish and then we'll be back and I'm gonna give you a little bit of history
on Watergate salad
Well there you have it our Watergate salad is all ready to go to our potluck our picnic our barbeque or our family dinner and
Now I'm gonna serve you up a dish of it and I'm just gonna move this out of the way
What
Coconut you can sprinkle some on the top of it when you serve it along with some cherries if you like if that's your deal
But yeah, you can totally do that
There you have it a beautiful serving of Watergate salad
Why do you call that?
Funny you should ask
Good. Let me give you some information. That didn't sound fake it all did it I
Did go digging a little bit because I wondered why is this called Watergate salad and I can assure you this has absolutely
Nothing to do with the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon absolutely nothing in in
1976 which I think I don't know. I don't know how old this recipe is, but in
1976
the Denver Post in their edition of empire magazine
I guess that's like a tabloid that would be inserted in the newspaper kind of like parade
published a recipe for Watergate salad now rumor has it that Watergate salad was a
Concoction that was thought up by a sous-chef at the Watergate Hotel, which was part of the Watergate scandal
But this is something that was said to have been served at brunch on most weekends and then Watergate salad took off in popularity
During and after the presidential scandal which shares the same name
However, the Denver Post article does not verify this
It is a rumor noting that most like most sources the origins of the our obscure the recipe
originally published by General Foods, which merged into Kraft
And is now known, you know, it's under the Kraft banner of companies
called for
Two of the products that we use today, which was the pistachio pudding and the whipped topping. Otherwise known as Cool Whip
According to Kraft there are several urban myths regarding the name change
But they cannot substantiate any of them and several competing explanations
Exist Kraft actually developed a recipe for something that they called pistachio pineapple delight in
1975 and that was the same year that pistachio pudding mix came out and
Kraft did not refer to this as Watergate salad until
consumers started requesting the recipe under this of it under that name and according to Kraft kitchens when the recipe for
Pistachio pineapple delight was sent out an unnamed Chicago food editor
Renamed it Watergate salad to promote interest in the recipe when she printed it in her
Column neither the article nor the editor has been tracked down
however
So we cannot substantiate
those claims either the syndicated household advice columns by Ann Adams and Nan Nash Cummings in their in their
Column entitled and and man in October of 1997 reported that the name came from the similar
Watergate cake which shares most of the same ingredient and the recipes came out during the Watergate scandal and the cake has a cover-up
icing and it's full of nuts and the salad is also full of nut and both the cake and a salad were part of a
Trend for satirically named recipes such as Nixon's perfectly clear consommé and Liddy's clam up chowder
So if you know your history you're gonna laugh at that and since I remember that very vividly from my childhood
I'm laughing now
I was only like seven or eight years old when that thing those things took place
But regardless another interesting note is that in 1922 Helen Keller published a similar recipe calling for canned diced
Pineapple nuts marshmallows whipped cream and other ingredients she claims. I ate it at first in California
so I called it Golden Gate salad similar to fruit salad and
Pineapple salad recipes had been published in the 1910s and Golden Gate
Sal was served in some American hotels up to that point as well
So there's all the information that she'll ever need for Watergate salad
but the most important thing is
How does it taste?
So I'm gonna have Rick when you give Rick a taste and I get a lot of people who ask me
How come you're always feeding your husband? Well, my husband is holding the camera
With his good hand and most of you may or may not know but rick has multiple sclerosis
And his left hand is not as good as his right hand
So that is why I I help him eat, but only when we're doing this, otherwise, he feeds himself
Really amazed and I was really good
As rich and another great point is you're gonna heat up your kitchen making it
You didn't have to turn on the stove. You didn't have to turn on the oven
This gets thrown together in a matter of minutes and gets stuck in the fridge
It's nice and cool and refreshing and who doesn't like that on a hot summer evening
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