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I made a variation of this using ingredients that I have been using in a jello salad recipe for years that always gets rave reviews. I use lemon jello instead of cranberry jello and crushed pineapple instead of oranges. Drain and reserve syrup from 2 8oz cans of pineapple and enough water to make 1 cup, heat mixture to boiling, dissolve jello in hot liquid and cool. Gently stir in a 7oz bottle (or 1 cup) of ginger ale: chill until partially set. While waiting for jello to chill, mix together the crushed pineapple from 1 whole can and 1/2 of the other can and the cranberry sauce. Once jello has chilled, but again, not fully set fold in pineapple and cranberry sauce mixture. Use this as the jello salad layer. Also, I use Dream Whip instead of tub whipped topping.
Submitted on 11/24/2008 by kstagnaro