Recipe - Frozen Fruit Cocktail Pie

CRUST
1/3 cup Butter
One fourth cup White sugar
2 cup Crushed Graham crackers

FILLING
1 cn Fruit Cocktail
As much as you would like
coconut ( i us about 3/4
c.)
1 pt Favorite ice cream

Crust: Cream butter tell soft, add sugar, cream thoroughly. Add cracker
crumbs, One half c. at a time. Mix until blended well. Then place in 9 inch pie
plate, packing sides well. Then pack the bottom, building up sides to form
thick crust at curve of pan. Bake in hot oven (375 degrees) for 8 minutes.

Filling: While crust is baking and cooling, pour fruit cocktail in a
strainer to drain out all the juice. When crust is cool, add fruit (no
juice) to crust. Top fruit with 1 pt. of your ice cream. Then put the
coconut on the top. Then freeze and serve, will keep well for several days.
This is my Grandma's recipe, She us to tell me that her mom use to mix
fruits for this, but she changed it for her self with the can i think it
was a big can of fruit cocktail she would use. I have only made it once i
don't like fruit cocktail. Posted to EATL Digest by Ted & Bea
tbear@ALASKA.NET on Sep 2, 1997