Bananas with Bacon

Ingredients

• three or more bananas
• some streaky bacon
• a piece of butter
• some oblong slices of toasted brown bread

Method

1. 1

   Cut bacon into thin slices, boil briefly in water, then fry until crisp.

2. 2

   Peel and slice bananas lengthwise, allowing half a banana for each slice of bacon.

3. 3

   Fry bananas in the same pan as bacon.

4. 4

   Toast bread, butter it, and trim to size of bacon.

5. 5

   Assemble by placing bacon on toast, topping with fried banana, and serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bananas with Bacon. This is a particularly tasty breakfast, luncheon, or supper dish. Cut some streaky bacon into rather thin slices. Put them in a saute-pan with just enough water to cover, and let boil for a few seconds. Then drain the slices of bacon carefully, place them in a frying-pan, and fry until crisp over a quick fire. The bacon should be of a delicate brown when cooked. Peel and slice lengthwise three or more bananas, allowing half a banana for each slice of bacon. Put a piece of butter

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