Fruit Salad Recipe; Frozen Fruit Salad or 24 Hour Salad Recipe

The very best fruit salad recipe was made by my dad. No matter how hard we try, we just cannot duplicate his mixed fruit salad. I think maybe it was the “heart” that he put into making it. My nephew, Mike and I along with all the other family members still talk about Dads fruit salad.

Dad wanted every fruit imaginable in his fruit salad. He started by gathering in all the fresh fruits that he could find. After that he went to the canned fruits until he had enough. I know all this fruit makes a huge bowl full but he always made it for our get-togethers so we didn’t have to worry about having too much. There was never a recipe but the following is a list of what could have gone into it.

DAD’S FRUIT SALAD RECIPE

• Oranges, peeled and sectioned


• Peaches


• Pears


• Bananas


• Strawberries, if fresh are not available, use frozen


• Berries, any other available


• Pineapple chunks


• Chopped apples


• Maraschino cherries


• Seedless grapes, cut in half


• Cantaloupe chunks

The following fruit salad is delicious served scooped on fresh lettuce leaves or served frozen.

FROZEN FRUIT SALAD

• 3 Ounce package soft cream cheese


• 1 Cup mayonnaise


• 1 Cup whipping cream


• 1 Cup peaches, fresh ripe or drained canned


• 1 Cup well drained crushed pineapple


• ½ Cup maraschino cherries, cut in half


• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice

Combine the peaches, pineapple, cherries and lemon juice; toss together to blend. Cream the cheese and mayonnaise together until smooth. Beat the whipping cream until stiff.

Combine the fruit mixture with the mayonnaise-cheese mixture and stir until well blended. Fold in the whipped cream. If serving this frozen, rinse out a flat pan, mold or loaf pan with fresh water. Pack the fruit salad into the pan and place in the freezer. When firm, cut or slice and ser on a leaf of lettuce. (if you have a problem removing from mold, set bottom in a little warm water for a few seconds)

24 HOUR SALAD RECIPE

• 1 Pound seedless white grapes in halves


• 1 Cup drained pineapple chunks


• 1 Pound chopped marshmallows


• 1 Cup chopped nuts


• ½ Pint whipping cream, whipped

Dressing

• 4 Egg yolks


• ½ Teaspoon dry mustard


• 1/8 Teaspoon salt


• Juice from 1 lemon

Combine the dressing ingredients; cook and stir over medium heat until thick and smooth; cool completely. When cold fold in the whipped cream. Combine all the salad ingredients and fold in the cold cream mixture. Let set in refrigerator for 24 hours to blend flavor.

CANDLE SALAD

This candle salad is really cute and great for the kids. For adults too! The following is for each salad.

NOTE OF INTEREST: Monkeys peel a banana the easy way; from the opposite end that most of us begin the peeling. Try it!

• Lettuce leaf


• 1 slice pineapple


• ½ Banana


• 2 Tablespoons mayonnaise


• 1 Tablespoon peanut butter


• 1 Maraschino cherry

Place pineapple slice on lettuce leaf. Put the banana half in the hole of the pineapple with point end up. Mix mayonnaise and peanut butter together and pour over the banana; this is candle wax. Place the cherry on the top for the flame.

Try More Delicious Salad Recipes

• Slaw recipes


• Kidney bean salad


• Congealed salad


• Layered salad

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