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[untitled on the card] — pineapple and graham-crumb refrigerator dessert
From the family recipe box
Read this one with the card open. Something on it is illegible, missing or ambiguous. It is transcribed exactly as written — nothing has been guessed or filled in — and every uncertainty is marked below.
⚠ THE CARD HAS NO TITLE. It begins straight in at "Bottom". The heading above is descriptive, written by the Vault from the card's own contents — it is not what the card says, and it must not be presented anywhere as the recipe's real name. If someone in the family knows what this was called, that name replaces this one.
Bottom
- 2½ c. graham wafer crumbs (reserve ¼ cup — see Notes on the wording)
- to remainder add ½ c. butter or marg. — mix well
- press into 9×9 or 9×12 pan (greased)
- Bake 325° for 15 min (cool)
Top
- ½ c. butter or marg.
- 2 small unbeaten eggs
- 1½ cup icing sugar
- 1 can crushed pineapple, drained
- ½ pint whipped cream
Cream ½ c. butter or marg. with 2 small unbeaten eggs and 1½ cup icing sugar. Beat light. Spread over bottom.
Drain 1 can crushed pineapple; fold into ½ pint of whipped cream. Spread over egg mixture.
Sprinkle with graham crumbs (the reserved ¼ cup). Chill several hours in fridge.
Notes
⚠ THE TOPPING CONTAINS RAW EGG. Two unbeaten eggs are creamed with butter and icing sugar and are
never cooked — the base is baked, the topping is not. That is entirely normal for a refrigerator dessert
of this vintage and it is transcribed exactly as written. It is flagged because this recipe is a
candidate for a public website, and a raw-egg recipe published without a word about it is a different
thing from a raw-egg recipe in a family box. publish: needs-review for that reason as much as for the
missing title. This is a flag, not advice.
On the wording "(reverse ¼ cup)": the word is written ambiguously and reads as reverse; the sense is plainly reserve, because the final step sprinkles graham crumbs back over the top. Both readings are recorded here rather than one being silently chosen.
"Sprinkle c graham crumbs" — the character before "graham" is a single letter that could be an abbreviation for with or a quantity in cups. Read as the reserved quarter-cup, on the strength of the first line.
Canadian usage, twice. Graham wafer crumbs (not "graham cracker") and icing sugar (not "confectioners'/powdered") are both Commonwealth terms — and the same hand's other cards in this box use desiccated coconut. This is an observation about the vocabulary on the page, not a claim about who wrote it. It is worth noting because The Library's published set also contains Nanimo Squares — a Nanaimo bar, a specifically Canadian recipe. Something in this box comes from Canada.
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