Compote Of Bananas Recipe

Remove the peel and threads from six very ripe bananas; let stand covered with boiling water a few seconds, then drain and coat each with orange syrup; pile in the form of a pyramid; pour the rest of the syrup over them and sprinkle with chopped pistachio nuts or candied cherries. Serve as a dessert or an entrée. For the syrup, boil one cup of orange juice and pulp and the juice of half a lemon with one cup of sugar five or six minutes. The syrup should be rather thick.

Fried Bananas, Cherry Sauce Recipe

Cut bananas lengthwise into halves, roll them in finely pulverized macaroons and then in flour, and fry in deep fat or oil until lightly colored; drain on soft paper, brush over with apricot marmalade, and dredge with shredded pistachio nuts. Serve with a syrup made of one cup of sugar and one cup of water boiled together five minutes and mixed with half a cup of currant jelly; when the jelly is melted add a tablespoonful of lemon juice and strain over half a cup of preserved cherries. Serve as an entrée.

Baked Bananas Recipe (Porto Rico)

Select rather green bananas; put them entire into hot ashes, or a very hot oven, and bake until the skins burst open. Serve at once, in a folded napkin, with butter.