- Categories:1950s, Vintage advertisem*nts, Vintage dessert recipes,
- By The Click Americana Team
- Added or last updatedDecember 1, 2022
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This old-fashioned fruit co*cktail eggnog pie was a holiday favorite in the 1950s! It’s easy to make — only the pie shell needs baking.
You use canned fruit co*cktail in the eggnog mixture, then ring the extra fruit in a wreath around the top of the festive pie.
Fruit co*cktail pie idea for the holidays (1956)
Here’s a new role for Eggnog, America’s favorite holiday beverage. Now it’s an ingredient in a wonderfully delicate pie — Fruit co*cktail Eggnog Pie.
This wholesome dessert is so smooth, so rich, so delicious. It’s sure to please. We predict it’ll become a traditional favorite at your house… for nothing expresses holiday hospitality quite as well as a festive bowl of eggnog.
And how nice for you — there’s no work to do. Summery-sweet cling peaches, pears, grapes, cherries, and pineapple are neatly-cut, ready-fixed, and happily blended in each can.
Make a fruit co*cktail pie rich and creamy with prepared eggnog
Here’s a new role for eggnog, America’s favorite holiday beverage. Now it’s an ingredient in a wonderfully delicate pie — Fruit co*cktail Eggnog Pie.
This wholesome dessert is so smooth, so rich, so delicious, it’s sure to please. We predict it’ll become a traditional favorite at your house.
DON’T MISS THIS: Have some fabulous fifties-style fun with these weird vintage fruit co*cktail recipes
Fruit co*cktail eggnog pie
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Additional Time: 4 hours
Total Time: 4 hours 25 minutes
Ingredients
- 3-1/2 cups of fruit co*cktail
- 2 1/2 teaspoons Knox gelatin
- 1-1/2 cups prepared eggnog
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon almond flavoring
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1 9-inch baked pie shell
Instructions
- Drain fruit co*cktail well, and measure 1/2 cup of the syrup.
- Stir gelatin into syrup, place over boiling water and stir until gelatin is dissolved.
- Remove from heat, stir into eggnog.
- Add salt, flavorings.
- Chill until mixture mounds when dropped from spoon.
- Whip cream.
- Fold into gelatin mixture along with 1-1/2 cups well-drained fruit co*cktail.
- Chill again 5 to 10 minutes, until mixture mounds.
- Heap into baked and cooled pie shell.
- Chill for 2 to 4 hours.
- Decorate with remaining fruit co*cktail before serving.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 266Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 71mgSodium: 111mgCarbohydrates: 27gFiber: 1gSugar: 20gProtein: 6g
Click Americana offers approximate nutrition information as a general reference only, and we make no warranties regarding its accuracy. Please make any necessary calculations based on the actual ingredients used in your recipe, and consult with a qualified healthcare professional if you have dietary concerns.
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- Categories: 1950s, Vintage advertisem*nts, Vintage dessert recipes,
- Tags: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, desserts, eggnog, fruit, fruit co*cktail, recipes, Vintage pie recipes, wreaths
- Original publication date: Dec 10, 1956
- Added or last updatedDecember 1, 2022
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