Valentine's Day Recipes
Molded Rose Champagne Salad
Ingredients
- 3 small boxes strawberry, raspberry or sparkling white grape gelatin
- 1 cup hot water
- 2 1/4 cups champagne or natural white wine
- 3 1/2 cups white seedless grapes
- 4 to 8 rosebuds (small to medium in size), rinsed and dry
- 1 cup fresh mint leaves (optional)
Instructions
- Refrigerate a clean dry mold until ready to fill.
- Mix gelatin and hot water until gelatin is dissolved; add champagne.
- Chill until slightly thickened (egg white consistency).
- Pour 1/2 cup of the mixture into the mold. Arrange the rosebuds, inverted, in mold.
- Chill until firm.
- Combine grapes and 2 cups gelatin mixture. Carefully pour over the first mixture and rosebuds. (Do not disturb rosebuds in the mold.) Let set for a few minutes, then add the remaining gelatin mixture.
- Chill until firm.
- Unmold on bed of mint leaves (optional).
- Fill center (if using a mold with a center hole) with grapes which have been cut in half and frosted with sugar.