Banana Pie

Ingredients

• enough bananas to make two cupfuls of pulp
• one-half cup of sugar
• two crushed and sifted soda crackers
• one-half cup of milk
• the juice of a lemon
• the rind of a lemon
• two spoonfuls of molasses
• a pinch of powdered cinnamon
• two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mash the bananas and force through a sieve.

2. 2

   Mix with sugar, soda crackers, milk, lemon juice and rind, molasses, cinnamon, and eggs.

3. 3

   Bake in an open pie like a pumpkin pie.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 218. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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