Strawberry delight

{{Short description|Dessert salad}}

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| caption = Strawberry delight at a Minnesota supermarket

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| country = United States

| region = Minnesota

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| type = Dessert salad

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| main_ingredient = Crust: graham cracker and butter
Filling: milk, whipped topping, cream cheese, strawberries and strawberry gelatin

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Strawberry delight is a dessert salad found in the United States, especially in the South and more rural areas of Minnesota. Strawberry delight is made from milk, whipped topping, cream cheese, strawberries and strawberry gelatin over a graham cracker crust. Variations include ingredients such as ice cream,[https://books.google.com/books?id=XuyJqgScQFsC&dq=strawberry+delight&pg=PA354 Los Islenos Cookbook: Canary Island Recipes] Los Isleños Heritage & Cultural Society Pelican Publishing Company, 2000 {{ISBN|1-56554-760-8}}, {{ISBN|978-1-56554-760-5}}, 426 pages, page 354 canned fruit (mandarin oranges and pineapple can be used), marshmallows, lemon juice, and walnuts.Jean Paré [https://books.google.com/books?id=iRRAB3DUBnYC&dq=strawberry+delight&pg=PA77 Salads] page 77 The crust ingredients are mixed and pressed in a pan with the creamy ingredients mixed and added on top. Boiling water is added to the strawberry gelatin mix, strawberries are added to it, and then that mixture is poured over the creamy mixture in the pan, all of which is then refrigerated to set.1879–2004, 125 Years Our Savior's Lutheran Church Cookbook page 173{{cite web|url=http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1913,138162-227200,00.html |title=Recipe - Cool Whip Strawberry Delight Dessert |publisher=Cooks.com |date= |access-date=2010-02-03}}

The strawberry delight moniker is also used to refer to cookies,Paula H. Deen, Martha Nesbit [https://books.google.com/books?id=HbAsAi58BYsC&dq=strawberry+delight&pg=PA52 Paula Deen & Friends: Living It Up, Southern Style] Edition illustrated Publisher Simon and Schuster, 2005 {{ISBN|0-7432-6722-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7432-6722-9}},

p. 73 (photo) and 75[https://books.google.com/books?id=L7_3acIakk8C&dq=strawberry+delight&pg=PA65 Coming Home with Gooseberry Patch Cookbook: Food to Bring Family & Friends to the Table] Edition illustrated Publisher Gooseberry Patch, 2007 {{ISBN|1-933494-05-0}}, {{ISBN|978-1-933494-05-0}}, p. 75 cakes, and other foods that have some of the same pinkish, sweet qualities. A soda fountain version with sponge cake and ice cream was featured in a 1922 edition of The Soda fountain newsletter.[https://books.google.com/books?id=4fPNAAAAMAAJ&dq=strawberry+delight&pg=RA1-PA88 The Soda fountain, Volume 21] Publisher D. O. Haynes., 1922 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Dec 12, 2008

In Persian cuisine, strawberry delight (deser-e toot farangi) is made with berries dipped in liquified sugar flavored with vanilla and rosewater.[https://books.google.com/books?id=GOidnQOUco0C&dq=strawberry+delight&pg=PA236 Strawberry Delight "Deser-e Toot Farangi"] Persian cooking: a table of exotic delights By Nesta Ramazani page 236 Strawberries, walnut or almond oil, and powdered milk have also been suggested for a "strawberry delight" skin cream.Sue Dolan [https://books.google.com/books?id=W5bjQHPOdx4C&dq=strawberry+delight&pg=PA45 Naturally Skinsational: Rejuvenating Skin Care Recipes] page 45 The name Strawberry Delight has also been given to hosta (H. longipes X H. pycnophylla)Diana Grenfell, Michael Shadrack [https://books.google.com/books?id=fUdyIfqhoLsC&dq=strawberry+delight&pg=PA95 The color encyclopedia of hostas] page 95 and fuchsia.Richard Rosenfeld Fuchsias 2003 - 320 pages A version has also been featured in an Indonesian-English reader.{{cite book|title=Siap Mhdp UN 09 Bhs Ingg SMP|author=Joko Priyana, dkk|publisher=Grasindo|isbn=9789790255715|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tVyjBYNOvsC|page=54|access-date=2014-10-24}}