Pineapple Sauce – From Chiquita Banana’s Recipe Book (1950)

Pineapple Sauce – From Chiquita Banana’s Recipe Book (1950)
Chiquita Banana's recipe book 1950
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Ingredients:

  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • Dash of salt
  • 1-1/4 cups canned unsweetened pineapple juice
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup drained crushed pineapple

Instructions:

Mix together sugar, cornstarch and salt in saucepan. Add pineapple juice gradually. Bring to boiling temperature and cook about 5 minutes, or until thickend, stirring constantly. Add lemon juice and pineapple.
Makes about  1-1/2 cups sauce.

Variation:

Pineapple Mint Sauce: Flavor Pineapple Sauce with 1 to 3 drops of oil of peppermenet. Add enough green food coloring to tint the sauce a delicate green.

 

IMPORTANT: If juice from sweetened canned pineapple is used, reduce sugar 1 to 2 tablespoons, depending upon the sweetness of the juice.

Diced canned pineapple may be used in place of crushed pineapple.

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