The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1952Vol. XXIII, No. 4

Recipe Corner

p. 77 · Read in the full issue

READERS are invited to send in

their favourite recipes using

Islands ingredients or ingredients

easily obtainable in the Islands. Ten

shillings will be paid for each one used.

Desserts In A Jiffy

Banana Cinnamon Toast

Peel and slice a thick layer of bananas onto hot buttered toast. Sprinkle with sugar mixed with cinnamon and brown under a griller or in top of oven.

Serve piping hot with canned or fresh cream, sweetened and flavoured with vanilla.

Banana Cream Whip

Strain the liquid from a small tin of cream, and whip the thick cream with one large dessertspoon of sugar. Mix together three mashed ripe bananas, a pinch of salt, and a dessertspoon of lime or lemon juice. Fold in the whipped cream. Chill, and serve within an hour, garnished with sliced banana.

Banana Ambrosia

‘I oranges, 3 ripe bananas.

IVz cups grated coconut, it cup sugar.

Cut oranges into thin slices and slice bananas. Arrange alternate layers of oranges and bananas in a large serving dish, sprinkling each layer with sugar and coconut. Top with coconut, garnish with orange and banana, and chill.

Serve with custard, canned or fresh cream, or coconut cream.

Mr. J. W. Cittins, at present on

leave in the United Kingdom, will

shortly resign from the Fiji Govern

ment service on medical grounds.

He has spent 22 years in the Colony, firstly as a Cadet then as a District Commissioner in many districts. Be fore going on leave last year he

was Assistant Colonial Secretary.