Recipes

[ECBG]

Let's share some old dessert recipes.

Remember Millionare Pie?  I've never quit making it!

(I also make the filling in a bowl and spoon over lemon pound cake, garnish with chopped pecans.

                                   Millionaire Pie

 1 can crushed pineapple well drained

 1 small can well drained mandarin orange, cut in half

½ C of halved green grapes

½ C chopped pecans

6 drained cherries with stems, or extra chopped pecans to garnish.

(One fruit may be replaced with grated coconut of the same measurement).

Juice of 1 fresh lemon

1 can sweetened condensed milk like Eaglebrand.

1 8oz cool whip, thawed.

In large bowl mix lemon juice with sweetened condensed milk.

Mix in pineapple, mandarin oranges, and chopped pecans.

Gently fold in thawed cool whip.

Pour into graham cracker crust.

Cover.  Chill for at least 5-6 hours.

[Kachina624]

@ECBG    I think we've discussed this before but that's not the Furr's Cafeteria Millionaire Pie I know and love, my all-time favorite desert.

[ECBG]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@ECBG    I think we've discussed this before but that's not the Furr's Cafeteria Millionaire Pie I know and love, my all-time favorite desert.

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@Kachina624 The items can change a little, don't you think?

Some people like cut up canned peaches and pears.  Too mushy for me.  

I've heard of coconut, and that WOULD be good.

A little cantaloupe, finely minced and drained would work, as well as all of the berries and kiwi.

It just depends on the cook.

[Kachina624]

@ECBG   It's a completely different recipe, no resemblence.  I used to make yours too.  I tried four places to copy the recipe but all of these sites have their recipes fixed so you can't copy them.  If you Google Furr's millionaire pie, it's all over the internet.

[spent2much]

@Kachina624  Have you tried using the Snipping Tool in Windows to copy?  When there's no other way to copy, I use that.

[ECBG]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@ECBG   It's a completely different recipe, no resemblence.  I used to make yours too.  I tried four places to copy the recipe but all of these sites have their recipes fixed so you can't copy them.  If you Google Furr's millionaire pie, it's all over the internet.

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@Kachina624 Ohhhhh!  I'll look at that one!  I love to see how people from all over the country cook!

[D Kay]

My mother made that mandarin hers did not have Mandarin oranges or grapes.

[walker]

You said ..."old".... this must go back 50 years....one of my mother's.

Cream Cheese Delight

2 cups flour

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 cup chopped nuts

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup Crisco

Mix above by hand and put in 9x13" pan.  Bake at 400 for 15 minutes.  Cool, crumble and pat back down.

Next, mix and set aside........1 (8oz) pkg. cream cheese

                                              1 cup powdered sugar

                                              1 teaspoon vanilla

Then, whip 2 pkgs. Dream Whip (do they still sell that?) and mix with cheese mixture.  Spread on crust; spread 1 large can cherry or blueberry pie filling on top.  Refrigerate before serving.

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

@walker  I made that when I first got married 50 years ago.

Every Memorial Day we had a pinic at one of my Aunt's house.  Mom's youngest brother asked every year if I was going to bring that dessert. He always a piece of each flavor.

The kicker, he hated, detested and abhored cream cheese and no one ever told him.  The poor man passed away never knowing his favorite dessert had cream cheese.

[walker]

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@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:

@walker  I made that when I first got married 50 years ago.

Every Memorial Day we had a pinic at one of my Aunt's house.  Mom's youngest brother asked every year if I was going to bring that dessert. He always a piece of each flavor.

The kicker, he hated, detested and abhored cream cheese and no one ever told him.  The poor man passed away never knowing his favorite dessert had cream cheese.

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I love that story.  Thanks for sharing!  It is a good dessert!