Fried Plantains

Ingredients

• the ordinary banana

Method

1. 1

   Fry the banana until a rich brown in hot fat.

2. 2

   Serve as part of the breakfast.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Breakfasts and teas (1907) by Paul Pierce, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fried Plantains Fish in Escabeche New Potatoes Tenderloin Steak Lettuce Salad Guava Paste and Fresh Cheese Cocoanut Desert Fruit Coffee The olives should be served with cracked ice; the Aeles sausage (imported) in very thin slices. Eggs in Revoltillo. Fry in a little butter a good sized onion chopped fine; when brown, add three fresh tomatoes and one sweet green pepper cut into small bits. Salt to taste and let simmer until the tomatoes are quite cooked, then add six eggs which have been beaten. Stir while cooking and serve soft as you would scrambled eggs. Boiled Rice. Rice in Cuba is an indispensable article of food, and no meal is complete without it. There is no little art required in its preparation, and it is imperative that it should be dry and tender at once. Like most simple things, it has a certain knack to it. Having thorough- ly washed the rice, place it in a saucepan with three or Breakfasts and Teas 25 four times the same quantity of water; salt generously and allow to boil until the grain is soft but not broken; drain off carefully all the water, cover the saucepan tightly and place at the back of the stove, where it will finish cooking slowly and become dry through the action of the steam. A small piece of lard added a few moments before serving glazes the rice and brings out its flavor. Each grain should stand apart from its neighbors. Some Cubans add a single kernel of garlic after removing the water. The quantity is so small that there is but a suspicion of a taste, and it gives this frugal dish a certain cachet. Fried Plantains are essential to every breakfast in the tropics, but they are not always obtainable here. A very good sub- stitute is the ordinary banana

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