President Dwight Eisenhower’s Prune Whip (1950s)

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15 Comments

  1. fufairytoo

    Looks like sausage gravy thickened way too much. 😀

  2. mind_the_umlaut

    Perhaps an artistic garnish? A vertical element?

  3. I LOVE prune whip. My mom made it regularly (heh) when I was a kid and it was a real treat.

    It must, however, be served with a pourable custard, made with the egg yolks not used in the whip. I put a hit of lemon zest and juice into mine which also makes a better whip.

    I have done it with a mix of dried apricots and prunes and that’s very good too.

  4. Yeah, that seems like something he’d be into.

  5. It looks like that weird grease that comes with ground beef.

  6. rubycarat

    I am sorry but that does not look or sound good to me.

  7. fishinglife777

    I love prune whip but the one our family made was more like a Bavarian dessert. Custard, gelatin, loads of fresh whipped cream folded.

  8. rncookiemaker

    Maybe that’s how he held the allied forces in Europe.

  9. trying-to-be-kind

    Eisenhower had numerous bowel issues, and even wound up with a permanent ostomy after emergency surgery for a bowel obstruction. I know some people are making fun of the obvious, uh, *digestive implications* of a prune whip recipe, but this may have been why he preferred it as much as he did.

    Source: I learned about Eisenhower having an ostomy after I got one during colon cancer treatment 

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