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French Tower Torte

From Cut Off Youth Center Favorite Recipes.

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A historical recipe

Cut Off Youth Center Favorite Recipes.

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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. 1 cup juice

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 4 ripe medium bananas 1 pkg.
  2. yellow cake mix 2 cans (20 oz.
  3. each) crushed mandarin orange sections pineapple in juice maraschino cherries, drained Peel and mash 1 banana to make 1/3 cup.
  4. Drain pineapple well, reserving 1 cup juice for cake and pineapple for filling.
  5. Follow package directions for cake using mashed bananas and reserved pineapple juice instead of water.
  6. Bake in a 350° oven for 30 minutes.
  7. Cool 10 minutes before removing.
  8. Slice cooled cakes in half horizontally to make four layers.
  9. Prepare Pineapple Creme Chantilly Filling.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Colander
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Credit

From Cut Off Youth Center Favorite Recipes, printed page 2, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cut-off-youth-center-favorite-recipes-1988-1-copy-copy-copy

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.