Mock Pineapple Recipes

Steps:

• 1. In large stainless kettle, combine sugar, pineapple juice, oil and lemon juice. Bring to a boil. Add zucchini chunks and bring back to boil; let it boil for 3 minutes. Pack into hot, sterile pint jars and seal.
• 2. The zucchini turns yellow and really tastes like pineapple! To use as a pie filling, thicken a pint with a little cornstarch. Or use for upside down cake! It's good mixed with cool whip and served in a graham cracker pie crust...You are limited only by your imagination!

Steps:

• Cube zucchini for chunk or shred for crushed pineapple. The shredded with fill less jars then chunk.
• Place the shredded zucchini in a strainer for 15 minutes. Squeeze out excess water.
• Or place the cubed zucchini in a strainer and lightly salt, toss and let sit 20 minutes. Then rinse and drain weel twice. Dry with papare towels.
• While the zucchini is draining place juices, sugar, salt, and food coloring in a large pot and bring to a boil.
• Add shredded zucchini to pot and bring back to a boil for 25 minutes. cubed zucchini for 40.
• Then add extract and rum if using cook for 5 more minutes.
• Fill hot sterilized jars with hot mixture and cooking liquid, leaving 1/2 inch head space.
• Remove air bubbles.
• Wipe jar rims.
• Adjust lids.
• Process in a boiling water bath.
• Half-pints or pints for 15 minutes.
• You should get 16 jars shredded with this recipe or 10 jar cubed.
• With the cubed you`ll have extra syrup left, do save it for making mixed drinks.

Steps:

• To make Ice ring: Fill a ring-shaped cake pan to 1/2 with ginger ale. Freeze until partially frozen. At this stage you can place edible flowers, or pieces of fruit around the ring. Fill pan with ginger ale and freeze until solid. Place in punch bowl just before serving.
• In a large punch bowl, combine 1 bottle ginger ale, pineapple juice and white grape juice.