Bananes à la Norvégienne (Bananas Norvégienne)

Ingredients

• bananas
• banana ice
• meringue italienne flavoured with rum
• crushed ice (for the tray)

Instructions

1. Lift a slice of skin off each banana and remove the pulp, keeping the skins whole.
2. Fill the skins three-quarters full with banana ice.
3. Cover the ice at once with a stippled piping of meringue italienne flavoured with rum.
4. Set the bananas on a dish and stand the dish on a tray of crushed ice.
5. Pass them through an oven hot enough to colour the meringue promptly.