Refrigerator and Ice Cream Pies

Here’s a whole chapter of dessert beauties—pie recipes to delight the hostess. You will find great variety when you leaf through the pages—both in the fillings and the crusts. And you will notice that they have one thing in common: They are pies you make ahead and chill before serving.

The refrigerator pie family is large. Chiffon pies with their billows of fluffy filling in crisp crumb, pastry, coconut and other kinds of crusts, are universal favorites. With a can of mandarin oranges in your cupboard, for instance, you can make a gorgeous chiffon pie on short notice—our Golden Nugget Orange Pie. Bavarian pies, with whipped cream folded into their fruity fillings, are among the many refrigerator specials that contain gelatin.