Holiday Fruit Salad (My favorite thing in the world to eat!!)
Alright, I know I always tell you how much I love everything I post here. Well, I decided when I started Southern Plate that if I didn’t love a recipe, I just wouldn’t post it. So I am always telling the truth when I go on and on about how good something is. This is different though. This fruit salad is my absolute favorite thing in the entire world to eat. I adore it. I love it. As my son said once “This is so good, if it were a girl, I’d marry it!”. This fruit salad is soooooooo incredibly good. I LIVE for this fruit salad!
My grandmother makes it at Thanksgiving and Christmas. No other desserts exist for me when this fruit salad is present. You can tempt me with creme brulee, tiramisu, carrot cake, even Grandmama’s chocolate pie, but this fruit salad is the beginning and end as far as I am concerned.
In case you haven’t caught on yet, I REALLY REALLY love THIS fruit salad!
LETS MAKE SOME!!!!
~eyes widen and mouth begins to water~
You will need: Apples, Oranges, Grapes, 3-4 cans fruit cocktail (with juice), 1 Cup sugar, and 6 egg yolks (the yellow part).
Peel and chop apples. Place in bowl.
Peel and cut up oranges. Cut oranges up over apples and stir so that the orange juice prevents them from browning.
Cut grapes into halves. Place in bowl.
Pour all of the fruit cocktail into bowl, juice and all.
stir well.
Drain juice from bowl of fruit into a sauce pot.
Add sugar
(you CAN use Splenda in place of sugar here!)
Separate eggs. You can discard the whites or find another use for them
(I will be showing you how to make a meringue soon!)
Beat egg yolks well.
Add to sauce pot. Stir well.
Cook approximately 15 minutes over medium heat stirring occasionally until slightly thickened.
Cool.
Pour over fruit. Cover and refrigerate.
Will keep in frig for a week. Make at least 24 hours ahead so that flavors can marry.
(or they can just date for a bit, they”ll likely get along better if they haven’t signed on for a commitment after such a short time anyway)
Serve cold.
OMG….if you had any idea how wonderful this tastes you’d be dying right now!
Grandmama and Mama always store theirs in glass jars in the fridge, kind of like this one.
Ingredients
- 6-8 Apples
- 6 Oranges
- 1 lb Grapes
- 3-4 Cans Fruit Cocktail (You can use generic, it is every bit as good!)
- 1 Cup sugar
- 6 egg yolks
Instructions
- Peel fruit and chop into small pieces. Cut oranges over apples so that the juice from the oranges will stop the apples from turning dark. Pour fruit cocktail over fruit. Drain juice from fruit into saucepan.
- Add 1 cup sugar and 6 egg yolks. Blend well.
- Cook approximately 15 minutes over medium heat stirring occasionally until slightly thickened. Cool. Pour over fruit.
- Cover and refrigerate. Will keep in frig for a week. Make at least 24 hours ahead so that flavors can marry. Optional: Coconut and pecans. Bananas can be added but they turn dark quick and the fruit salad will not last as long in refrigerator.
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Posted by Christy Jordan
on Nov 24 2008. Filed under Breakfast, Dessert, Holiday Favorites!.
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Just wondering… ever put mini marshmellows in this salad? Can’t wait to try it.
Christi, my mom makes this every holiday but with vanilla pudding.
Susie, does the vanilla pudding take the place of the sauce or is the vanilla puffing in addition to?
Sorry, that would be pudding!
Nelda, my mother always put mini marshmallows in this recipe. It’s delicious! Christy, one of the things I love about your posts is how much our mothers cooked alike. I have forgotten about some of these recipes. When I see them posted on Southern Plate it reminds me to make the recipe and relive some wonderful memories. Because I don’t have some of the recipes, I use yours since I know it’s going to be just like Mothers.
can this be frozen? how many marshmallows would you suggest?
We make something very similar to this fruit salad but omit the eggs Cut up fruit of your choice, nothing canned, sprinkle sugar (amount is up to you) then pour milk over but not to cover, just enough to make a simple sauce, stir and let marinate for a few hours in the fridge. We serve it with all the cakes and trust me…it’s yummy over german chocolate! My husband doesn’t rally like it, he calls it ‘fruit cereal’ but all my family LOVE it! Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Christy,
Are we by chance sister and didn’t know it? Your holiday recipes have been lifted out of my mother’s, grandmother and aunt’s kitchens. This is one of my mothers favorites. We have quit making it in the last several years but I intend to this year.
We might just be Cheryl, in spirit if nothing else!! Merry Christmas!
Made this for our family Thanksgiving and everyone enjoyed it and several asked for the recipe. Thank you for sharing.
Hope you and your family have a Blessed and Merry Christmas.
MERRY CCHRISTMAS.
I am so glad to hear it was such a hit!! Merry Christmas to you Emma!!
I’ll be making this for our Christmas as well. I just made your Dirty Rice and was it ever good! A little “hot” for me so the next time, I’ll be cutting that down.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
My Aunt Melba always made a fruit salad like this, but she added chopped pecans for me! I’m making it today for our family’s Christmas celebration and I expect I’ll have to make another batch for my husband’s family get-together later in the week.
My aunt made this yesterday for our family Christmas gathering. She told me it had egg yolks in it and I was a little concerned … until I read the recipe and realized they are cooked. It was fabulous! I can’t wait to make it for friends for New Year’s.
Because of the write-up I made this for Christmas gifts this year… recipe made A LOT, which pleased me, BUT it absolutely did not thrill anyone. Good idea, though sadly I won’t be making it again.
I am so sorry it wasn’t a thriller for you Diane, everyone in my family has always loved it. Hopefully you will find a few thrills in some other ways.