Banana Roll a la Breta

Ingredients

• one and a half cups milk
• one cup chopped bananas
• two tablespoons chopped almonds
• two tablespoons sugar
• one tablespoon brandy
• one small tablespoon cornstarch
• whites of two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put one cup milk on stove, add bananas, chopped almonds, sugar, brandy; thicken the milk with cornstarch dissolved in half cup milk, then add the whites of the eggs well beaten.

2. 2

   Fill and roll the cake; frost with a thin white frosting; sprinkle with almonds.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 595. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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