Banana Bisque Recipe

  
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
    1/2 lb salt beef
      4 c  stock
      4 c  green bananas,chopped &
           -boiled
      1 c  onions,minced
      1 t  salt
    1/2 t  pepper
      1 c  cream

Combine all ingredients.  Bring to the boil and simmer until bananas
are pulpy, approximately 30 - 40 minutes.  Rub through fine sieve; add
cream.  Reheat to blend but do not boil.  Serve garnished with parsley
or chives.

Banana Brazillian
 
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
    1/4 c  powdered sugar
      1 T  cocoa
      6    banans,ripe
           brazil nuts,chopped

Sift together sugar & cocoa.  Peel bananas.  Roll in sugar mixture.
Chill.  Sprinkle with chopped nuts.  Top with cream.

Jamaica Festival Culinary Arts Competition

Banana Bread
        
      1 lb butter
    1/2 lb sugar,about 1 cup
    1/2 t  baking soda
      2 t  baking powder
      4    ripe bananas
      3    eggs

Cream bananas, sugar and butter.  Add eggs.  Rub in flour, baking
soda and baking powder.  Pour into greased loaf tin and bake in a
moderate oven for 1 1/2 hours.

Serve hot or cold.

Banana Cake
 
            cake
    1/2 c  butter,1 stick
      1 c  sugar
      2    eggs
      3    ripe bananas,pureed
      2 c  flour
    1/2 t  nutmeg
      1 t  bicarbonate of soda,baking
           -soda
    1/2 c  cashew nuts,chopped
           Merringue
      4    egg whites
      1 c  sugar
      2 T  light rum

Cream butter & sugar; beat in eggs one at a time.  Fold in mashed
bananas & flour sifted with soda & nutmeg.  Add cashew nuts.  Bake
about 50 minutes in lined, greased cake tin.

Meringue: beat egg whites, add sugar & rum gradually and continue
beating until mixture holds a peak.

1965  Jamaica Festival of Culinary Arts Competition