BANANA TRIFLE. A GOOD DISH FOR CHILDREN'S PARTIES.

Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 61

BANANA TRIFLE. A GOOD DISH FOR CHILDREN'S PARTIES.

Take six bananas, eight or nine slices of thin bread and butter, one of sponge cake, 51b of apricot or strawberry jam, and one lemon. Buttsr a pie dish and line it inside with three slices ol bread and butter or sponge cake. Skin the bananas and cut them tip into rounds. Pill your dish with alternate layers of sliced banana and jam, sprinkling each layer with lemon juice. Put slices of bread and butter or sponge cake over the top. Bake lightly, turn out, and serve with custard or whipped creani poured over.

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