Dehydrated Bananas

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 26

Dehydrated Bananas

Dear Aunt Daisy, I always look at your page first when The Listener comes in, and am sure you will be able to help,me. I was wondering if you could give us some recipes for using dehydrated bananas now on sale in the shops. I bought some the other day, but thought you would know some ways of using them up, so have put them aside. I am a fairly new bride so really do ‘appreciate your help with household problems. I do not always get time to listen to your session, so would be grateful if you would print them in The Listener. Then I could not miss them. Thank you. "Alice of Gisborne," Yes, Alice, the dehydrated bananas are indeed useful and incidentally are a very popular item in the food parcels for Britain. They are fully ripened before being dried, and their starches are thus converted into natural sugar. They form a concentrated food, and may be

eaten just plain, as a sweetmeat; or used | in fruit cakes, steamed puddings, or in. those popular recipes for date loaves, | substituting them for the dates. BANANA NUT LOAF Half a pound dried bananas; 2 a cup boiling water; 1 dessertspoon butter; 1 | egé; 2 cup sugar; I cup flour; a few chopped nuts. Chop the dried bananas | and mix with the half cup boiling water, the butter and the chopped nuts. ) Beat the egg and sugar together well | and add to the mixture. Then add the | flour, half a teaspoon of soda dissolved.| in warm water, and a pinch of salt. Mix | wet. Bake slowly for *%4 of an hour. BANANA BREAD | Soak 1 packet of dried chopped-up | bananas (or 1 cup dates) in 1 cup boil- | ing water in which has been dissolved 1) "agar ae baking soda. After about 42 hour beat up well, without sichitdaa | water off. Now beat until very light and fluffy 1 cup sugar and I egg. Add 1 des- | sertspoon melted butter, essence of van- | illa to taste, then the beaten bananas (or | dates). Lastly sift in 2 cups flour and | 1 teaspoon baking powder. Baxe about hour in a moderate oven. Do not cut. until next, day. | { | BANANA JELLY Halt a packet of dried bananas; 2 cups hot water; 1 packet jelly crystals; juice | of 1 lemon. Pour 1 cup hot water over | the bananas and allow them to soak about 10 minutes. Thoroughly dissolve. the jelly crystals in the other cup of | hot water. Add the dried bananas with | their syrup and the lemon juice. Stir well | and pour into a mould. Put in a cool | place to set.