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Grandma Mackay's Fruit Salad Edit Tags: SaladsIngredients:- 1 20 oz can Pineapple Chunks
- Grapes-Red and Green
- Strawberries
- Bananas
- Optional:Fresh peaches or canned mandarin oranges drained, small colored marshmallows
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- corn starch
- ¾ cup sugar
- Juice of 1 orange (or ½ inch orange juice concentrate or ½ cup orange juice.
- Juice of 1 lemon (or 3 Tablespoons lemon juice or lemonade concentrate or ½ cup lemonade.)
Directions:
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Drain pineapple
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Add juice from pineapple to the other juices.
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Heat the juices with ¾ C sugar and cook on medium heat.
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While it is heating, mix 2 heaping Tbsp cornstarch with ½ C water.
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Just before the juices are about to boil, add the cornstarch mixture to the pan stirring constantly.
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Stir until it starts to thicken and boil.
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Cool 5 min.
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Pour glaze over pineapple.
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Allow to cool.
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Just before eating, add the other fruits and mix.
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Note: I will usually make the glaze several hours before we want to eat, even as early as morning and let the glaze and pineapple cool on the counter. I don't add the other fruit until just before eating.
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