A banana dish created at Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans in the 1950s. Bananas are cut in half lengthways, sautéed with rum, brown sugar and banana liqueur and served with vanilla ice cream.
Side shoots which grow around the base of a banana plant can be forced, in the same way as rhubarb, by excluding light. They then grow into long white spikes which can be baked.
A dish of bananas split lengthwise onto which three scoops of ice cream are placed. This is then coated with chocolate sauce and decorated with whipped cream and maraschino cherries. Decorations, sauces and flavours of ice cream can vary. It is an invention of the United States.
A large winter squash shaped, unsurprisingly, like a banana. It has pale orange to creamy white skin with orange to yellow flesh. It has a pronounced, slightly sweet flavour. They are vigorous and often enormous.
A cylinder of soft cheese made with cow's milk cast in shallow moulds. It has a rich paste. It is made in Oxfordshire and is about 2 cm (1") deep. Samuel Pepys likened thin, miserable people to Banbury cheeses.
A small, oval flaky pastry filled with mixed raisins and currants, candied peel and spices, originally from Banbury in Oxfordshire and rather similar to an Eccles cake.
The banded carpet shell clam is a small slightly reddish coloured edible clam.
