Summer!
Summer is by far my favorite time of year. I like warm weather, I love breaking out all the summer clothes, I love all the different flowers that bloom throughout the summer. Cookouts, fireworks, farmers markets, fresh fruit.....I enjoy just about everything about summer.
For as long as I can remember I have loved strawberries. One of my favorite things to eat in the summer (and really just about any time of year) the past few years, is a Strawberry Pretzel Salad. This is my mother-in-law's recipe and she is very diligent about making it all throughout the year so that we can enjoy it. I'm making it this weekend for a cookout with friends. It always gets rave reviews --- just about everyone loves pretzels, cream cheese and strawberries.
Strawberry Pretzel Salad
2 cups crushed pretzels
3/4 cup butter, softened
4 teaspoons sugar
Mix above ingredients and pour into a 9 x 13-inch pan. Bake for six minutes at 400 degrees. Cool.
8 ounces cream cheese
1 cup sugar
8 ounces Cool Whip
Mix above ingredients and spread on cooled crust.
6 ounces strawberry Jello
2 cups boiling water
16 ounces frozen strawberries
Combine jello and water. Add frozen strawberries. Pour this mixture on top of the cream cheese layer. Refrigerate overnight.
posted by Beth Martino @ 3:00 PM
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I'm SO glad to see the strawberry pretzel salad recipe! This was a staple in my grandmother's repetoire for many years; nearly every time we had a family gathering, this is what she made. (The rest of the time, it was a pistachio salad--that recipe can stay lost, as far as I'm concerned.)
Unfortunately, I wasn't paying much attention to cooking back then and only knew that I liked to eat! I never did ask her for the recipe . . . and when she died, no one thought to save her cookbooks or recipe files. Consequently, the salad just faded from my mind. Until today, that is!
Reading your description of the strawberry pretzel salad just made me smile. Thanks for bringing back a great memory . . .
Your Ginger Cupcake Friend
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