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A historical recipe from One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906).

A historical recipe

One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906). Project Gutenberg eBook #68235.

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

Also printed in: One hundred & one Mexican dishes (1906).

Source and licence

From One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #68235 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68235). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Mexico. Associated with Mexico by the book is about Mexican cookery (Cooking, Mexican); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Method

  1. Line the sides of a baking-dish with a light puff-paste;
  2. cover the bottom with sliced pineapple;
  3. next, a layer of peeled sliced oranges, then sliced bananas and then a few thin slices of lemon.
  4. Sift a most generous supply of sugar between each layer.
  5. Repeat the layers until the dish is full and cover the top layer with chopped nuts.
  6. Lay over the top narrow strips of the pastry and bake slowly for an hour or more.