Anonymous wrote:once a year, for nostalgia's sake, I make the glorified rice salad my mom (Minnesota Lutheran) used to make for thinks like graduation and confirmation parties. I believe there's different versions but hers was rice, cherry jello, pineapple tidbits, miniature marshmallows, and cool whip (this also pre-dated the existence of cool whip so she may have originally used whipped cream--I remember when I was very little she also would make sliced apples in whipped cream as a dessert). I made a bowl for a church potluck Friday--the theme was foods from your culture so I decided what the heck, Minnesota Lutheran it is (and less work than making lefse, if you know what that is).
It got cancelled so I've been eating it for two meals a day all weekend, with a normal salad and slice of homemade pizza in between.
I bet that recipe is in the “Lutheran Church Basement Women” book.
-Fellow midwestern Lutheran