perfection salad

Meaning

Noun

• A terrine/jello-style vegetable loaf made with lemon vinaigrette flavored gelatin, filled with a chopped garden salad or green salad. It was popular in the United States during the early and mid 20th century.

Related

Broader meaning words

• gelatin salad / congealed salad / jello salad
• molded salad
• salad

Origin

• Coined by Mrs. John E. Cook of New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA, for a submission to a magazine recipe contest sponsored by Knox gelatin in 1904.