Join me on my delicious journey revisiting American home cooking in the era before convenience foods became popular (1919 to 1955), as I bake and cook from old cookbooks and recipe cards of home cooks purchased at estate sales in Akron, Ohio, and other exotic locations.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Two Bad Ideas from United Fruit Company
Banana republics, of course, and this savory sautéed banana recipe. I just found this perfectly preserved specimen in a c.1940s recipe scrapbook in my collection.
"fry in butter or OTHER FAT??????" like what? bacon grease? Crisco?
ReplyDeletePerhaps yet another reason this never caught on!
ReplyDelete"serve hot as a vegetable" ewww! although back then, bland and mushy was the ideal way to serve a vegetable!
ReplyDeleteComing here from Hey My Mom Used to Make That!....since when do you have to fry a banana "till tender" WTH?
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