Baked Bananas

Before we cooked them:

After they'd been cooked:

This recipe took us about 30 minutes to make, including prep and cook time.

Recipe:

6 firm bananas

1 tablespoon of lemon juice

½ cup brown sugar

3 tablespoons of butter or margarine

Instructions: (Makes 8 servings)

1. Arrange whole peeled bananas on butter baking dish.
2. Sprinkle with lemon juice and brown sugar. Dot with butter.
3. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for about 25 minutes or until bananas are hot and sugar is melted.
4. Serve hot with whipped cream.

In the south, baked bananas were often served at the Passover table. The above recipe is adapted from “What’s Cooking with the Millsteins,” a privately published cookbook from Natchez, Mississippi. (Nathan, p. 362)

This was not our favorite dish. Unfortunately, the bananas came out soggy and brown.

Hopefully, you’ll have better luck than we did!

-Carter & Sarah

(This recipe was adapted from page 362 of Joan Nathan's book "Jewish Cooking in America")