by Regina Brown
HISTORY NOTE: My Aunt Glen (Cooper) Parrott obtained the recipe from a Chef coworker at a restaurant she used to work at. The Chefs name was Millie who invented the Millie salad recipe. Aunt Glen gave the recipe to her mother which is my Grandmother Frances Cooper and to another aunt named Wanda who married into the Cooper family. Aunt Wanda always made the Millie Salad which was always a traditional dish for the entire Cooper family get together family dinners including Thanksgiving and Christmas family dinners. The recipe is at least 43 years old. The Cooper family is my father’s family.
Jell-O mixture:
2 boxes (3 ounces each) or 1 box (6 ounces) of lemon or orange Jell-O
2-1/2 cans (20 ounces each) crushed pineapple (sweetened or unsweetened)
2 or more bananas, cut up
1 package of small or mini marshmallows
topping:
1 cup pineapple juice
1 egg, beaten well
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons butter (can use more or less as desired)
1 envelope package of Dream Whip
Prepare Jell-O according to package directions in a 9 x13 pan.
Drain off pineapple juice to 1 cup and reserve.
Put pineapple in Jell-O.
Then cut up bananas and put in Jell-O and stir.
Then put marshmallows on top of Jell-O and spread evenly.
Put in refrigerator until set.
Cook topping ingredients until thick and put in refrigerator until cold.
Whip Dream Whip and combine with the topping.
The topping will be thick.
Spread topping on top of Jell-O and marshmallows.
Chill until needed.
