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Half-Million-Dollar Pie

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 16-20

Ingredients

One 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
One 11-ounce can mandarin oranges, drained and chopped
One 8-ounce can crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup chopped pecans
One 16-ounce carton Cool Whip
2 graham cracker pie crusts

Preparation

  1. In a bowl, mix the milk and lemon juice. Stir in the oranges, pineapple, and pecans. Fold the Cool Whip into the fruit mixture. Divide the filling between the pie crusts. Cover and refrigerate. Refrigerated, the pies will keep for up to 8 days.

The Lady & Sons, Too! by Paula Deen. © 2001 by Paula H. Deen. Published by Random House. All Rights Reserved. Paula H. Deen was born and raised in Albany, Georgia. She later moved to Savannah, where she and her two sons, Bobby and Jamie, started the Bag Lady catering company. The business took off and evolved into The Lady & Sons Restaurant, which is located in Savannah’s historic district and specializes in Southern cooking. Paula is the host of Food Network’s Paula’s Home Cooking and is a regular guest on QVC, where her cookbooks are one of the newtowrk’s biggest sellers.
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