Baked Bananas

Ingredients

• bananas
• sugar
• mace
• lemon juice
• lemon peel
• melted butter

Instructions

1. Bananas can be cooked fifty ways, and in each be found excellent.
2. The best way: peel, slice in half lengthwise, and lay in a dish with a cover.
3. Shake sugar over, add a little mace, lemon juice, lemon peel, and melted butter.
4. Then bake until soft — seven to fifteen minutes in a hot oven, according to the quantity in the dish.
5. Or peel and slice, leave unseasoned, and lay in the pan bacon has been cooked in, first pouring away most of the fat. Cook five minutes in a hot oven, and send to table with hot bread, crisp bacon and coffee for breakfast.
6. A thick slice of banana, along with a thick slice of tart apple, both very lightly seasoned, makes a fine stuffing for squabs.
7. Half a banana delicately baked, and laid on a well-browned chop, adds to looks and flavor.