Mort, my father passed away this week at age almost 92 He was not a really a cook, but every family gathering, or dinner party always included this as one of the desserts. He would painstakingly thinly slice each fruit, and carefully layer them. While some substitutions or additions were allowed some never were - no apples, pears, bananas,watermelon ever, but frozen raspberries were allowed if strawberries weren't available , grapefruit was only in it in the winter, preferably pink. Watching him from a very early age, I learned how to cut a pineapple, get all the pith off of citrus (kind of shaving it with a very sharp knife) and got to suck on the discarded tough cores while spending time with him.. <br />It is important to let this " marinate" overnight. Weirdly, no one ever thought that the children shouldn't have it, despite as he would have called it, all the booze.

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