The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-27
BANANA IS SECOND .
STAPLE IN HAWAII
Many Ways Of Serving PalatabIe
Fruit Demonstrated At House,
hold Efficiency Class

Though the banana is second only to
the taro in Importance as staple arr
ticle of diet in the Islands, the Ha-
waiian housekcepers of Mrs. Russell's
Household Efficiency Glass, which meets
IN the Y. W. 9. A. building every Fri
day. morning ut ninc-thirty, still found
the cooking and serving of bananas an
unhaekneyed subject, Its flavor, agree.
abe TO almost every palate, its nutri.
1 tious qualities, the almost unnumbered
ways il can be used as fruit, salad, veg.
etable or even as cream soup, endeaT
II TO the housekeeper. Some reports of
it's causing indigestion are reported,
but almost always this is caused by
faulty lnastication or lack of care in. re-
moving the string.like fbers that cling
to the pulp when the skin Is removed.
| With children, where they seem TO
cause distress most frequently, the trou-
lie is overcome almost always by mash
ng, or running the raw bananas
through potato ricer before serving.
There is another criticism lodged
against bananas, though as yet not
completely proven, and that is the FIRE.
Iuency 'f intestinal worms among chill.
.lren in, the tropics is due to the con-
,tant eating Of raw bananas IL true,
his, too, can be overcome by careful
less, as the parasitic eggs are found
only in the tip ends Of the fruit, and a
lice from each end discarded will re.
move the danger. From the many wayr
the fruit can be used, Mrs. Russell
chose the following recipes to demon.
/ strate to her class; the Brown Betty
md the dumping proving of much i'm
crest at this time when apples are 50
'carce and high priced. .l. sge
Baked Bananas-(Use plautaip OF
cooking bananas). Baked whole in the
skins, remove the ends and bake twen-
y minutes Serve in the skins like q
potato. ', R
SECOND Recipe--Peel, slice in half
lengthwise, place on buttered dish and
lemon juice squeezed over them, and
bake twenty minutes ...,tel.,
Third Recipe--Slice, sprinkle with
iemah juice. and sugar and put in but
.cred baking dish with first layer o.
crumbs, then 4 layer of bananas with q
aver of crumbs on top, dot with buttei
md bake till brown. Serve with cur
led dishes. .sr@
Salads Use sweet bananas). Sweet
'ananas cut in half lengthwise, balls OF
'ream cheese or cottage cbees'
prinkled with chopped nuts between
he bananas dotted with mayonna ise.
Second Rccipe-Out bananas IN die,
with equal quantities of chopped celer,
md u few chopped walnuts. Mix witt
uayonnaise and serve in half skins .,
IN lettuce leaf. ~ .a
iaked, cooled, skin removed and place.
IN lettuce leaf with mayonnaise anc
hopped nuts on top. AN .s
banana Dumplings-Slice and put il
pieces with sugar and cinnamon, cove
With pastry as for apple dumping ant
pake twenty minutes. Serve hot will
'ream. ....... NHs.G ,..#t
Banana Custard-Make boiled Gus
ard and while hot pour over slice,
'ananas and let cool. A fayorite Will
hildren. .... .,. a
Banana Brown Betty-One cum O,
,read crumbs, one-half cup of brow
lugar, two tablespoons butter, 81,
'ahanas; put through potato ricer. FIJI
buttered baking dish, layer by laye
18th crumbs and fruit, dot with butte
nd bake thirty minutes.
Banana Cream-One.half box lemo
clio, four bananas, one-fourth Gun o
agar, Opc-half pint of water, one
'ourth pint of cream. Pour boilinl
water on jcllO, let cool, put banana
Trough riccr and mix with sugar. Viii
roam and blend all ingredients. Whe
ukcwarm set on ice in fancy mould
'urn out when set and serve with lad
myers. -. LII. r.
Friel Bananas-(Use sweet kind
Slice in half lengths dip in egg an
'r"nd crumbs and fry in deep fat.
Second Recipe-Cook in the fat afte
ooking ham or bacon for breakfast a
'Ou would cold potatoes. ,...1 .,
Sliced Bananas - With sugar. an
I roam, with the breakfast food whethe
be cooked mush or the prepare
rreal. A glass of water and a wei
aastieated banana taken just befor
iehtime Is well proven cure for. eve
Estimate cases of constipation. ~
The fish demonstrated at this lesso
the class were the red snapper, opa
apaka, manini, maimai, the mpllet an
L
Q the resemblance between the mule
nd the kumawawa and how easily thi
hcaper, not so good favored fish eoul
&c substituted for the higher priced
more desirable mullet. Special ,instru,
I ion was given in stufing the red snaI
{ ler for roasting, in wrapping the mule
= n ii leaves for baking, in dipping III
pakapaka in -four egg and bread
rumbs for frying aud In preparing Cd
nHnini for sauteing in butter or driI
ings. ,.., -
Friday, March 30, at nihe-thirty IN
! fth lesson Of the class will take up III
preparing If cold meat dishes, "dr
SOUPS" Ia French term) and possibl
( there is time, some work with III
, 'OcOanut. .>-N.#t
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