Recipe Corner
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READERS are invited to send in their favourite recipes using Islands in gredients or ingredients readily ob tained in the Islands. Ten shillings will I>e paid for each one published.
Banana Nut Cake
2 cups sifted flour. 1 v cup cornflour. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 i teaspoon baking soda. cup butter. 1( z teaspoon salt.
I cup sugar. 2 eggs. r 2 cup chopped nuts. 1 teaspoon vanilla. 2-3 mashed ripe bananas. 2 tablespoons milk.
Beat butter and sugar and add eggs one at a time, beating until the mixture is light and fluffy. Sift flour, baking powder, soda, cornflour, and salt, and add alternately with the bananas and milk.
Stir in vanilla, and cook in well-greased take tin about eight inches square, in moderate oven, about an hour.
If cake is to be kept plain put a few extra nuts on ton before baking. For a party cake, ice the top and sides with banana butter frosting.
Banana Butter Frosting
Beat together 1 large mashed banana, ’z teaspoon lemon juice, (4 cup butter, and 3V> cups of sifted confectioners’ sugar, adding the sugar a little at a time, and Seating until the icing is light and fluffy.
Arora, Niue Is.