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Millionaire Pie

ECBG — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:26:44 GMT

This pie has always been a prize in the south! I imagine it's been loved everywhere else too. I ran into it as a teenager and couldn't get it into my file quickly enough!!!

Millionaire Pie

1 small container cool whip, thawed

Juice of one lemon

1 can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk

1 can Dole crushed pineapple, well drained

1 can mandrian oranges drained and cut in half

1/3 C green grapes, halved

1/3 C chopped pecans

1 Graham Cracker Crust

In large bowl, mix Eaglebrand Sweetened Condensed Milk with juice if one lemon.

Add pineapple, mandrian oranges, green grapes, and pecans and mix.

Fold in Cool Whip.

Pour into graham cracker crust. Chill thouroughly, about 6 hours.

I like the more tart fruits with this. Some people put in coconut, and I've heard of peaches, but canned peaches are too soft for me. Chopped cantaloupe and honeydew would be good, as would kiwi. Strawberries would be good but they'd color the filling.

I do have a great fruit pizza with Cool Whip if anyone wants it.

Re: Millionare Pie

Sooner — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:27:55 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
This pie has always been a prize in the south! I imagine it's been loved everywhere else too. I ran into it as a teenager and couldn't get it into my file quickly enough!!!

Millionare Pie

1 small container cool whip, thawed
Juice of one lemon
1 can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk
1 can Dole crushed pineapple, well drained
1 can mandrian oranges drained and cut in half
1/3 C green grapes, halved
1/3 C chopped pecans
1 Graham Cracker Crust

In large bowl, mix Eaglebrand Sweetened Condensed Milk with juice if one lemon.
Add pineapple, mandrian oranges, green grapes, and pecans and mix.
Fold in Cool Whip.
Pour into graham cracker crust. Chill thouroughly, about 6 hours.

I like the more tart fruits with this. Some people put in coconut, and I've heard of peaches, but canned peaches are too soft for me. Chopped cantaloupe and honeydew would be good, as would kiwi. Strawberries would be good but they'd color the filling.

I do have a great fruit pizza with Cool Whip if anyone wants it.

LOVE this! Apricots? Cherries? Raspberries? Those are my favorite fruits! You could also maybe make a graham cracker crust in a pan, pour the filling in without the fruit (or maybe just the pineapple?), then cut it in squares to top serve and top with fresh fruits sweetened a little to draw out the juices. Thanks for this idea just when I needed something like that! I haven't thought about this pie in years but mother made it a lot!

Re: Millionare Pie

Kachina624 — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:17:02 GMT

Thats not the Millionaire Pie I know and love. Will see if I can find my recipe.

Here is the recipe I know and love. No fruit except pineapple but has this decadent layer made of butter and 10X sugar. It was made famous by the Furr's Cafeteria chain in the South. People would go in there just for the pie.

Furr's Millionaire Pie

Re: Millionaire Pie

software — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:27:42 GMT

Can't beat home-made from scratch banana pudding!!

It's on my menu for Sunday

I use the recipe on the Nilla Vanilla wafer box. Very simple but heavenly.

@ECBG

Re: Millionaire Pie

ECBG — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:35:46 GMT

@software wrote:
Can't beat home-made from scratch banana pudding!!

It's on my menu for Sunday
I use the recipe on the Nilla Vanilla wafer box. Very simple but heavenly.

@ECBG

@software,Funny you mentioned banana pudding. DH would do anything for that so I make a double recipe (it takes my 4 qt casserole) for Father's Day. This pudding was always one of my "milk labs" in my foods classes. Many of the students had only eaten the jello kind. They were in love!

Re: Millionaire Pie

vabreeze — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:38:32 GMT

@ECBG

So easy, no baking and all ingredients on hand!!! I will definitely be making this. Thanks for sharing your recipe/

Re: Millionare Pie

ECBG — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:42:54 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
@ECBG wrote:
This pie has always been a prize in the south! I imagine it's been loved everywhere else too. I ran into it as a teenager and couldn't get it into my file quickly enough!!!

Millionare Pie

1 small container cool whip, thawed
Juice of one lemon
1 can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk
1 can Dole crushed pineapple, well drained
1 can mandrian oranges drained and cut in half
1/3 C green grapes, halved
1/3 C chopped pecans
1 Graham Cracker Crust

In large bowl, mix Eaglebrand Sweetened Condensed Milk with juice if one lemon.
Add pineapple, mandrian oranges, green grapes, and pecans and mix.
Fold in Cool Whip.
Pour into graham cracker crust. Chill thouroughly, about 6 hours.

I like the more tart fruits with this. Some people put in coconut, and I've heard of peaches, but canned peaches are too soft for me. Chopped cantaloupe and honeydew would be good, as would kiwi. Strawberries would be good but they'd color the filling.

I do have a great fruit pizza with Cool Whip if anyone wants it.

LOVE this! Apricots? Cherries? Raspberries? Those are my favorite fruits! You could also maybe make a graham cracker crust in a pan, pour the filling in without the fruit (or maybe just the pineapple?), then cut it in squares to top serve and top with fresh fruits sweetened a little to draw out the juices. Thanks for this idea just when I needed something like that! I haven't thought about this pie in years but mother made it a lot!

@Sooner,Don't forget blueberries.

Here it is with cherries, they would have to be well drained and I see pineapple pieces.

Re: Millionare Pie

vabreeze — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:58:33 GMT

Yummo-- this looks like an ice-cream sundae!

Re: Millionaire Pie

vickie25 — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 02:57:39 GMT

@Kachina624 - I live in Dallas. I've had that pie at the Furr's cafeteria here.

Re: Millionaire Pie

Kachina624 — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 03:01:39 GMT

@vickie25 Yeah, it was very good wasn't it? I heard our local Furr's closed. The whole company has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for years.

Re: Millionare Pie

ECBG — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 04:12:27 GMT

@Kachina624,I think the recipe you have was the one before Cool Whip came out! That's amazing!

Did your mom make it? Do you remember when you first had it? Was it as a child? Did it come from your grandmother?

I've made powdered sugar before in a pinch and I could never get it soft enough and I taught Foods and Advanced Foods! LOL!!!

Re: Millionare Pie

Kachina624 — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 05:01:34 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
@Kachina624,I think the recipe you have was the one before Cool Whip came out! That's amazing!
Did your mom make it? Do you remember when you first had it? Was it as a child? Did it come from your grandmother?

I've made powdered sugar before in a pinch and I could never get it soft enough and I taught Foods and Advanced Foods! LOL!!!

@ECBG No, as I told you the pie was a speciality of Furr's Cafeterias which may now be out of business. They were headed that way for a long time. The were prevalent in Texas and there were a couple in Albuquerque. I don't know where else they were located.

The other recipe, the one you posted, was popular among my co-worker and I think I made it once. I personally preferred the Furr's pie. I don't know when it was first served but Furr's was an old chain and had very good food at one time. It could have been pre-Cool Whip.

Re: Millionare Pie

Carmie — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:44:06 GMT

@Kachina624 Your recipe sounds like the pie I had once. I didn't know what it was called, but it was good.

it must have over 1000 calories a slice!

Re: Millionare Pie

Kachina624 — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:23:19 GMT

@Carrie Yes, the pie is not diet food. It's very rich; a small slice is sufficient.

Re: Millionaire Pie

vickie25 — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 04:38:33 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@vickie25 Yeah, it was very good wasn't it? I heard our local Furr's closed. The whole company has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for years.

We still have 5 left in the DFW area but it's been years since I've eaten at one. It was definitely good.

Re: Millionaire Pie

iQue — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:11:42 GMT

Thank you for these recipes. I actually modified slighly for a smaller version using a 5 inch spring pan.

I replaced the eggs with sweetened condensed milk. Unfortunately I still used the powder sugar and so the bottom layer was extremely sweet. Next time I will use part sweetened condensed milk and mix in whipped heavy cream and leave out the powdered sugar in the first layer. Delightful with the pineapple and pecans. Might add a little coconut next time too.

Thanks for the recipes.

Re: Millionaire Pie

ECBG — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 01:31:11 GMT

@iQue,I'm sorry. I noticed you mentioned "eggs".. There are no eggs in Millionaire Pie. The eggs are in the Crustless Spinach Quiche.

Also I didn't use powdered sugar in the above pie or the quiche. I'm not quite sure what you may have made.

Re: Millionaire Pie

Honeybit — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 23:46:52 GMT

ECBG wrote:
I do have a great fruit pizza with Cool Whip if anyone wants it.

@ECBG

I'd love to have your Fruit Pizza recipe. (I still remember two "Big Shocks" from my childhood -- one when a neighbor brought us a "Meat Pie" and it wasn't SWEET; the other when I first saw a "Dessert Pizza" and it WAS!