Baked Bananas

Ingredients

• 7 bananas
• 2 tablespoons melted Crisco
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Remove skins from bananas and cut in halves lengthwise.

2. 2

   Put in a shallow pan.

3. 3

   Mix Crisco, sugar, and lemon juice, baste bananas with 3/4 of the mixture.

4. 4

   Bake for 20 minutes in a slow oven, basting with remaining mixture.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 106. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

14 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 14 cup Crisco, 4 squares chocolate, 114 cups flour, measured after sifting, 3 teaspoons’ baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, % cup milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cream Crisco and sugar, add well beaten eggs, then chocolate melted, beat thoroughly. Sift salt and bak- ing powder with flour and add al- ternating with milk to previous mix- ture. Add flavoring last and beat thoroughly before pouring into a pan well greased with Crisco. Bake in a moderate oven about 40 minutes, May 9 Broiled Bluefish *Souffle Potatoes, Canadian Style Spinach Radish Roses Coffee Jelly, Whipped Cream Sponge Cakes Coffee *Souffle Potatoes, Canadian Style— Select 6 large even-sized potatoes, wash and scrub them, and when dry Stewed Apricots - A Calendar of Dinners bake them in hot oven until done. Cut off small portion of skin and re- move inside part while hot. Rub this quickly through sieve into a basin, add 1 tablespoon cream, 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt, pepper, nut- meg to taste, and work in 4 yolks of eggs. Beat whites of eggs to stiff froth, and stir lightly into mixture. Fill potato shells with this, and bake slowly for about % hour, or long enough for mixture to rise, and surface of it to brown. If liked, a little grated cheese can be incor- porated with mixture and sprinkled over top of potatoes just before baking second time. ) May 10 Haricot Soup Rice Fritters Tomatoes au Gratin *Baked Bananas Bread Cheese Coffee *Baked Bananas—Remove skins from 7 bananas and cut in halves length- wise. Put in shallow granite pan or on an old platter. Mix 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, 14 cup sugar, and 2 tablespoons lemon juice

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