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Banana Cream

A historical recipe from The cult of the chafing dish, by Frank Schloesser (1905).

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A historical recipe

The cult of the chafing dish, by Frank Schloesser (1905). Project Gutenberg eBook #73560.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a tablespoon of milk

Method

  1. Tear off a strip of skin from each of half a dozen bananas.
  2. Put them in the Dish with a tablespoon of milk, and a sprinkle of soft sugar.
  3. Heat them up until the skins are quite brown and the fruit soft and pulpy.
  4. Then strip the skins, add some more sugar, and serve with sponge-cake fingers.

Plating

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The cult of the chafing dish, by Frank Schloesser (1905). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #73560 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73560). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.