Bing Cherry Christmas Salad

Don doesn't remember a Christmas as a child when this delicious dessert salad was not on the table. He found it among his mother's recipes, and now makes it every year.

1 can dark cherries in heavy syrup
2 cups miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup Miracle Whip
1 Tbs sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
1 can sliced pineapple
1 cup whipping cream
2 envelopes Knox gelatin
1/2 cup cold water

Chop pineapple and cherries. Pour juice from both cans into a pan and bring to a boil. Mix gelatin in cold water and add to the juice. Stir well to dissolve the gelatin. Let cool until just warm.

Whip cream with sugar, fold in Miracle Whip. Add fruit, marshmallows, pecans and juice mixture to the whipped cream mixture.

Pour into a 13x9 pyrex pan and chill until set. Keep in the refrigerator.

Note: recently the "heavy syrup" in the canned cherries has not been very heavy - add some sugar to the juice before boiling if necessary.