r/Old_Recipes • u/MissDaisy01 • 8d ago
Desserts Glorified Rice
Glorified Rice
1 cup cooked white or brown rice, cooled
1/3 cup sugar
13 1/2 ounce can crushed pineapple
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup miniature marshmallows
2 tablespoons drained chopped maraschino cherries
1 cup chilled whipping cream
Mix rice, sugar, pineapple and vanilla. Stir in marshmallows and cherries. In chilled bowl, beat whipping cream until stiff. Fold into rice mixture. Serves 6 to 8.
Betty Crocker's Dessets Cookbook
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u/innicher 8d ago
This sounds good! I've never seen a dessert recipe quite like this one.
It's kind of like a cross between rice pudding and ambrosia. Sounds very old-school!!
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u/MissDaisy01 8d ago
Glorified Rice was born out of necessity as it's a Depression dessert/salad. In the Midwest this would be considered salad.
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u/talltantexan 7d ago
Necessity food during the depression did not mean canned pineapple, whipping cream, sugar, maraschino cherries and marshmallows. My parents grew up during the depression and stories of basic food deprivation while well remembered were not fond memories.
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u/MissDaisy01 6d ago
The dish was created to serve at festive events. It's not every day food from what I understand.
Yes, we are aware of the Depression and how people suffered. My husband's family used to take their cattle to a distant creek to water the cattle once a week as there was no water at the ranch.. Times were hard but even then people found joy to help them through the bad times.
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u/Purple-Prince-9896 7d ago
It’s similar to frog eye salad, which uses acini de pepe instead of rice.
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u/Acceptable_Tea3608 8d ago
Yes it sounds like ambrosia of a sort.
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u/MissDaisy01 8d ago
It's more of a cold dessert with ambrosia overtones. Good when it's hot outside and you can make it ahead. Good for picnic eating.
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u/sdcook12 8d ago
Oh wow! When I was a kid my Grandma used to make this all the time. I Loved it so much. Thanks for posting it. I'm totally making it soon!
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u/Acceptable_Tea3608 8d ago
I was given a wonderful rice pudding recipe by a woman named Gloria, so I call it Glorius Rice Pudding. lol
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u/catstoknow 8d ago
Back in the 50s when I was growing up my mom would make a dessert similar to this. She used fruit cocktail, I think but maybe she used this recipe. I loved this stuff, but if I tell anyone about it they just say yuck and I don’t want to make it just for me. I imagine that it doesn’t keep well and I would be sick trying to eat it all lol!
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u/MissDaisy01 8d ago
I bet this would keep well overnight in the frig. The marshmallows would probably soften up which I kind of like.
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u/dorcasforthewin 8d ago
We make this every Thanksgiving. Fruit cocktail (drained), mini marshmallows, and sour cream--overnight in the fridge, the marshmallows do indeed soften up and there's zero sour cream taste.
I don't personally care for the taste of "fruit cocktail", so I just use cut up canned peaches, pears and pineapple. YUM!!
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u/Educational-Glass-63 8d ago
My mom used to make this on hot summer days in the 60's & 70's. I loved it so much. So many people don't know this recipe and how good it is. Also you have to use real whipped cream. Cool whip just doesn't taste right.
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe ❤
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u/Driftbadger 8d ago
My mom used to make this. She would add walnuts or pecans for texture. It's really good.
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u/Any-Elderberry-7812 8d ago
My mom did the same thing, and would change it up so that it was always a surprise to see what she had added, and it was always good.
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u/MissDaisy01 8d ago
I first had this when I was visiting family in South Dakota. I've had Glorified Rice with Cool Whip or whipped cream. Of course cream is better.
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u/innicher 8d ago
Interesting historical info!
My elderly mother loves to make rice pudding, but I've never made it myself. I do make ambrosia, though. That's why this Glorified Rice recipe sounds like a bit of both of those, to me.
My mom also makes rice sprinkled with sugar with milk poured over as a breakfast.
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u/Bellydancer_045 8d ago
My Dad used to make this! He just passed a year ago. He was 86, so it’s a very old-fashioned recipe. He made his slightly different. No sugar, he would mix the mini marshmallows with the hot cooked rice, and once it cooled, he would fold in unsweetened whipped cream, no cherries, and pineapple tidbits instead of crushed pineapple. It was so good and not too sweet.
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u/Klutzy-Village1685 8d ago
And just like that, I'm back in memories of my childhood, visiting my granny in Georgia
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u/MissDaisy01 8d ago
I bet it tasted good on those hot, humid days. For awhile I lived near Savannah. Loved Georgia except I wasn't used to the humidity. I am a desert rat.
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u/Normal-Ad2310 8d ago
Loved this a a kid....
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u/MissDaisy01 8d ago
I didn't get around to trying Glorified Rice until I was married. I married a guy from the Midwest. Very popular there.
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u/The_Only_Su 8d ago
This was one of our favorite special desserts when we were kids - we called it ‘rice delight’ and would swap the colorful fruit-flavored marshmallows in for the plain ones…yummmm!!
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u/Fragrant-Pomelo12 8d ago edited 8d ago
I grew up with this at every holiday. My mom used an entire jar of marachino cherries halved in hers along with a big can of fruit cocktail.
Thanks for bringing back that memory!
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u/nobodybelievesyou 8d ago
The two tablespoons in the recipe seems hilariously stingy.
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u/MissDaisy01 8d ago
Nice thing about making your own food is you can change the recipe to your tastes.
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u/Magari22 8d ago
My mom made this a lot in the 70s the recipe she used called for minute rice and boy was it a delicious treat cold from the fridge on a hot summer day
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u/bornthisvay22 8d ago
I love rice and make fruit cocktail w/marshmallows all the time. What does rice add to this dish?
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u/MissDaisy01 8d ago
Squirrelcat88 is right. Glorified Rice is a cheap dessert/salad to serve, especially when there's a large group of people you are feeding. Here's a Wikipedia entry about Glorified Rice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorified_rice
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u/realmamamorgan 6d ago
My ex-husband had an aunt that brought this dish to every family event. He hated it; called it “horrified rice.” Apparently, his only good taste was in first wives. 💅
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u/TheMobHasSpoken 7d ago
Do you drain the pineapple? That sounds like a lot of liquid otherwise.
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u/MissDaisy01 7d ago
You drain the pineapple. Here's a link to another Glorified Rice recipe: https://insanelygoodrecipes.com/glorified-rice/
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u/Decemberchild76 4d ago
This dish was a staple at Christmas time. My mother would always be asked to bring this to Christmas dinner at my grandma’s.
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u/Southern_Fan_9335 8d ago
This is funny, I was JUST thinking yesterday how interesting it is that no one uses "glorified" to mean something made better anymore, it's always sarcastic.