Banana Recipes

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27091, 27 May 1949, Page 2

Banana Recipes

Banana and Meat Loaf Ingredients: 141 b minced meat, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup breadcrumbs, 1 wellbeaten egg, J grated onion, i cup chopped pork or pork sausage meat, 4 large bananas. Method: Mix beef with onion, salt, pepper, breadcrumbs, pork and egg Shape into a, loaf. Press into buttered casserole. Cook in hot oven until tender Turn out, garnish with bananas, halved, cut crosswise, sprinkled with salt and pepper and grilled till delicately browned Banana aijd Cabbage Salad Ingredients: Two cups chopped white cabbage, 2 bananas, 3 cup chopped apples and walnuts, J cup salad dreskng. Method: Shred the cabbage, add diced apples, walnuts and finely chopped bananas. Mix lightly with salad dressing and serve very cold on lettuce leaves, sprinkled with celery salt. Banana Mousse Ingredients: Half tablespoonful gelatine, 1 cup of mashed bananas, 1 cup sugar, 3 egg whites, juice of 1 lemon. Method: Soften gelatine in one-third cup of cold water, add the same quantity of boiling water,' add the sugar and stir over a low heat until the sugar and gelatine are dissolved. Then add the banana pulp, stirring all the time. Return to- saucepan. Heat to boiling point, but do not boil. Cool, stir in the lemon juice and bpat until light and cold, then beat in gradually the stiffly frothed egg whites, Turn into a wet mould lined with slices of bananas. Turn out on to a crystal dish when cold.