PATRIOTIC GELATIN SALAD

Steps:

• In four separate bowls, dissolve each package of gelatin into 1 cup boiling water.
• Add ½ cup cold water to each and stir.
• Pour one bowl of blue gelatin into an oiled 10-inch fluted tube pan.
• Chill until almost set (about 30 minutes).
• Set other 3 bowls of gelatin aside at room temperature.
• Combine unflavored gelatin in remaining ½ cup cold water; let stand 5 minutes.
• Heat milk in saucepan over medium heat (just below boiling).
• Stir in softened unflavored gelatin and sugar until sugar is dissolved.
• Remove from heat; stir in sour cream and vanilla until smooth.
• When blue gelatin in pan is almost set, carefully spoon in 1 ½ cups of the sour cream mixture over blue layer.
• Chill until almost set (about 30 minutes).
• Carefully spoon 1 bowl of red gelatin over cream layer.
• Chill until almost set (about 30 minutes).
• Repeat process, adding layers of blue gelatin, cream mixture, and strawberry gelatin, chilling for at least 30 minutes between each.
• Chill several hours or over night before serving.