Put the water and sugar in a sauce-pan and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add four bananas which have been mashed with a silver fork. Boil for two minutes. Put through a sieve, and add the wine or maraschino.
Chocolate Sauce
¹⁄₂ cup water
¹⁄₂ cup powdered sugar
3 ozs. chocolate
Vanilla
¹⁄₂ cup scalded cream
Boil the water and sugar together for five minutes. Stir in the melted chocolate. Add a little vanilla. Stir in the cream immediately before serving. If the chocolate mixture cannot be served at once, stand it in a pan of hot water until it is needed.
Custard Sauce
¹⁄₂ pint milk (or cream)
2 table-spoons powdered sugar
Yolks of 2 eggs
Vanilla
Boil the milk and sugar together. Beat the yolks thoroughly, and pour the milk over them. Strain and return to the saucepan, stirring until it thickens. Do not let it boil. Add a little vanilla.
Foam Sauce
¹⁄₄ lb. butter
1 cup castor sugar
¹⁄₄ cup boiling water
White of 1 egg
1 tea-spoon vanilla
2 table-spoons wine, fruit juice or syrup
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar, vanilla and wine. Just before it is served stir in the boiling water. Then add the well-beaten white of an egg, and beat until the sauce is foamy.