Banana Pudding
From Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper, 1902
Cream or lemon and sugar with butter is a great improvement.
Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Banana Pudding. — In Pollok’s Reminiscences of India is the following recipe for banana pudding (copied by kind per- mission of the publisher, E. Arnold). There are not too many recipes available for cooking bananas. Take some plantains, have them 'fried in their skins ; when done you must peel and cut the fruit in slices ; add sugar to taste, and the juice of two or three limes (.? would lemons or oranges do as well), and the peel of one cut into small thin pieces ; add also a glass of white wine, half a tea- spoonful of pounded cloves, with a little butter. Make a paste as for apple pudding
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