Broken Glass

I love community cookbooks. I think that I might actually be addicted to them. I love finding one at a yardsale, an old bookstore or a church holiday bazaar that has an old recipe that you know is a family's tried and true "secret" recipe--their "go to" meal for comfort food. Since I have ancestors that hearken from the Wakefield, NH area, I snagged this puppy up in a hearbeat. I thumbed through the recipes and looked at the names of the contributors and there were several family names that rang that "genealogical bell" in my head.
So the other day I was "voluntold" to bring a dessert to a church supper and I decided to bring a neat sweet called "Broken Glass". It is a confection made of whipped cream and various flavors and colors of jello. The different colors of jello are cut up into little jagged pieces and mixed together with the whipped cream to look like shards from broken stained glass windows. It was really fun to make and didn't last very long on the buffet table at church. I'd gladly make the recipe again--but if you do--be sure to leave room in your fridge because you will be making several separate containers of jello at the same time. I hope to make another neat recipe from this cookbook soon!