Of all the foods that conjure up church suppers and family-reunion picnics, what could be ...

Molded and colorful, and full of canned and packaged ingredients, these not-really-a-salad salads are decidedly retro, and not in a sleek, West Elm mid-century modern kind of way.

Watch kids try Jell-O mold salad for the first time Brave kids provide brutally honest reactions to tasting jello mold ham and egg salad for the first time. The dish was popular in the 1960's.

During the holidays, I'll at times serve this unusual salad in place of cranberry sauce. It goes well with pork or poultry . Honestly, though, it's good with any everyday meal, too.

Molded salads haven't exactly lit up the culinary sky in the last couple of decades, but these darlings of the early to mid-20th century are not forgotten. Maggie Scotchler's nostalgic search for ...

“Sweetened condensed milk dressing would've been the height of culinary innovation back in the day,” says Tom Hishon, chef ...

“I serve this salad during the holiday season and always get compliments from my guests,” says Lillyan Norman of San Juan Capistrano. “The recipe is from my Georgia cookbook.”MOLDED ...

The salads of today have evolved from those popular for much of the 20th century thanks to a particular ingredient that was once reserved for society's elite.