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Banana Cream I

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Banana cream is a cream-based dessert. It is based on Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, which is public domain.

Total 00:30
Yield 6 servings

Ingredients

  • 3 medium-sized bananas or 2 large-sized bananas
  • ½ US pint (240 ml / 1 cup) double cream
  • 1.5 oz (43 g / ⅕ cup) caster sugar
  • 0.75 oz (21 g) leaf gelatine
  • 1 tbsp warm water
  • 1 wineglassful (175 ml / 5.9 oz / ¾ cup) Benedictine or Maraschino liqueur
  • Pink food coloring

Instructions

  1. 1
    Whip the cream in a mixing bowl until stiff peaks form.
  2. 2
    Pass the bananas through a fine sieve in another bowl. Add the stiffly-whipped cream and the liqueur, and mix lightly together.
  3. 3
    Dissolve the gelatine in the 1 tbsp warm water, stir in the sugar, and when sufficiently cool mix lightly with the cream mixture, adding food coloring drop by drop until a pale pink colour is obtained.
  4. 4
    Pour into the prepared mould, and chill until set.
Category
Desserts

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Banana_Cream_I