Holiday Fruit Salad

By srumbel

My grandmother makes it at Thanksgiving and Christmas. No other desserts exist for me when this fruit salad is present. You can tempt me with creme brulee, tiramisu, carrot cake, even Grandmama’s chocolate pie, but this fruit salad is the beginning and end as far as I am concerned.
from southernplate.com

Ingredients

• 6-8 Apples
• 6 Oranges
• 1 lb Grapes
• 3-4 Cans Fruit Cocktail (You can use generic, it is every bit as good!)
• 1 Cup sugar
• 6 egg yolks

Preparation

Step 1

Peel fruit and chop into small pieces. Cut oranges over apples so that the juice from the oranges will stop the apples from turning dark. Pour fruit cocktail over fruit. Drain juice from fruit into saucepan.
Add 1 cup sugar and 6 egg yolks. Blend well.
Cook approximately 15 minutes over medium heat stirring occasionally until slightly thickened. Cool. Pour over fruit.
Cover and refrigerate. Will keep in frig for a week. Make at least 24 hours ahead so that flavors can marry. Optional: Coconut and pecans. Bananas can be added but they turn dark quick and the fruit salad will not last as long in refrigerator.