This recipe is written in ballpoint pen in my Grammy's handwriting. It is dated March 1970 and attributed to Better Homes & Gardens.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups fruit cocktail
- 3 ounce package of orange gelatin
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 1 pint vanilla ice cream
- 1 baked 9-inch pastry shell [get the recipe for Never-Fail Pie Crust by clicking here]
Instructions:
- Drain syrup from the fruit cocktail into a measuring cup
- Add enough water to the syrup to make the total volume 1 cup
- In a saucepan, heat diluted syrup
- Dissolve gelatin in hot syrup mixture then add cold water
- Spoon ice cream into gelatin mixture
- Stir until melted
- Chill mixture for 40-45 minutes until it thicken and mounds when spooned
- Fold in 1 1/2 cup fruit cocktail
- Turn into pastry shell
- Chill until firm (20-25 minutes)
- Garnish with rest of fruit before serving
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