A RECIPE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 13

A RECIPE.

BANANA PASTIES

To /nake these you will need 2 cups flour,' 2 teaspoons baking powder, 8 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon brown sugar, one egg, one tablespoon castor sugar, pinch of cinnamon, pinch of nutmeg, i teaspoon salt, I teaspoon butter, cold water, bananas. First sift flour with salt and baking powder, add castor sugar, and rub in the eight tablespoons of butter with the .tips of the fingers. Mix to a dough with very cold water, and roll out on a lightly floured pastry' board to oneeighth of an inch in thickness. Cut into oblongs four and a-half inches wide and six inches long, and lay a peeled banana on each piece of pastry. Allow one teaspoon of brown sugar, pinch of nutniog, and cinnamon, and half a teaspoon of butter for . each banana, mix well and spread over each. Brush edges of pastry with cold water and press edges together. Place on a greased taking tin, brush with beaten egg, and bake for 16 minutes.