This recipe is from a 1969 booklet Pillsbury's Soup & Salad Cook Book. It is described as a "great appetizer or dessert soup. Especially good on a cold winter's night." I doubt that. I am not a fan of fruit soup anyway but you can't tell me it is going to look or taste like anything other than warm, slimey, watered-down fruit cocktail in a bowl.
Mock Fruit Soup
1 can (1 lb. 1 oz.) fruit cocktail, drain and reserve 1 cup syrup (adding water if necessary)
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons orange liqueur, if desired
Dash nutmeg
In medium saucepan, gradually add reserved 1 cup syrup to cornstarch; stir until smooth. Add remaining ingredients and fruit cocktail. Heat through. Serve warm. If desired, top with toasted slivered almonds. 4 to 5 servings.
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Odd and weird recipes from my large cookbook collection.
Weird Recipe Origins
While persuing my many cookbooks, adverstising booklets and cooking magazines I sometimes come across a recipe where I truely wonder what the originator was thinking. Sometimes they just sound like a terrible combination of ingredients. Other times it is what I call, the ingredient that doesn't belong. This is usually a food company trying to promote the use of their product in an inappropriate recipe. Recipes that might have found favor in past decades are sometimes so out of date they seem weird now.
About Me
- Rochelle R.
- Collecting cookbooks and recipes has been my hobby for over 35 years. I especially like vintage and advertising cookbooks and have over 1,000. I have a degree in Home Economics.
My collection
I have a large collection of several thousand cookbooks. I am most interested in vintage cookbooks and product adverstising books. A lot of these have recipes that we would now consider weird or odd.
2 comments:
Well, that sounds just terrible - especially on a cold night! I thought you had fruit soup in the summer...I love this kind of thing though - to read about, thanks for posting it!
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