Watergate Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (13 oz.) box instant pistachio pudding mix
3 c. mini marshmallows
1 (20 oz.) can undrained fruit cocktail
9 oz. whipped topping
well-drained chopped maraschino cherries (optional)
chopped nuts (optional)

Preparation

Mix pudding,
marshmallows,
fruit cocktail and whipped topping.
Cherries must be\tdrained
to
point of almost wiped off to keep salad
from getting red tint.
Additional nuts are optional, but pudding mix already has some nuts in it.