Bananas removed from their skins, chopped and soaked in rum, replaced into the skin on top of a bed of rice pudding and crystallised fruit and covered with crushed macaroons. When ready to eat the dish is sprinkled with melted butter and placed under the grill. It can also be served with a rum-flavoured apricot sauce.
Thinly sliced bananas mixed with Cumberland sauce, which is a sauce of port, redcurrant jelly and orange zest, with chopped pistachios sprinkled on top.
Bananas stewed with rum and sugar, turned onto a plate and served with cream sprinkled with crushed macaroons.
"Green banana." Plantain. An unripe green banana. It is starchy with firm flesh and is used for desserts if cooked. If it is left to ripen it is not as sweet as an ordinary banana.
