Luncheon Fruit Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tall can crushed pineapple
1/2 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 large pkg. cream cheese
2 Tbsp. unflavored gelatin
1/2 pt. whipping cream, Dream Whip or Cool Whip
small bottle maraschino cherries

Preparation

Heat pineapple, sugar and lemon juice.
Do not boil; soften gelatin with a little cold water and add a little of the warm pineapple mixture to it.
Mix well so it won't lump.
Mash cheese; add to preceding; also add cherries, cut up in pieces, with enough maraschino juice to make a pink color.
Let set until quite thick, then add whipped cream.
Put in a mold or just in a dish.