This section is from the book "The Steward's Handbook And Guide To Party Catering", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Larousse Gastronomique.
Dried bananas crystallized in sugar before quite dried out.
Breakfast dish; split, laid in pan with butter and sugar over, baked to a state like candy.
Either whole or cut across, dipped in syrup, then rolled in flour and dropped into hot oil or lard till crisp outside.
Cut in two across, steeped in rum or any liquor or wine and sugar; drained, dipped in fritter batter and fried; rolled in powdered sugar or served with a sauce.
Mashed, mixed with sugar, lemon juice, butter and eggs, and baked in a dish with bottom crust of paste.
Sliced, sprinkled with lemon juice, sugar, bits of butter, moistened with wine or brandy, baked with bottom and top crust.
Two bananas, pulped, to each quart of cream.
Flavored with extract; also, in imitation of peeled bananas.
Two sheets of cake, sliced bananas dipped in sweet wine laid between; banana-flavored yellow icing on top.
Among the very best of fruit. They have the ends cut off, are wiped with a cloth and placed on stands in their skins.
Cut up with oranges, cocoanut, wine and sugar.
Mashed bananas 1 1/2 lbs., flour 1/4 lb., sugar 2 oz., lard 2 oz., and 1 or 2 eggs. Dropped by spoofuls in hot lard. Bananas baked are served up with baked monkey in Brazil, like our oppossum with sweet potatoes.
 
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