Mash several bananas to a pulp, add the juice of 1 lemon and gelatine, when quite cold add whites of 3 eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Lay 2 whole bananas in the bottom of the dish and slices of bananas around sides, then fill up with the mixture and serve with whipped cream.
Almond Custard.
Blanch 3 ounces of almonds and pound to a paste, mix with a little cream add the beaten yolk of 4 eggs, 1 cup of sugar. Have a pint of cream hot add the mixture to this and stir thoroughly. Put into cups or a baking dish, bake slowly in the oven in a pan of hot water. Serve with whipped cream with a few brown almonds in the cream.
Rice Pudding.
Take ¹⁄₃ cup of rice, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 1 quart of milk, butter the size of a walnut, a little nutmeg, 2 eggs may be added if desired. Bake 2 hours in a slow oven.
Prune Whip.
Sweeten and stew 1 lb of prunes, when cold add the whites of 4 eggs, beaten stiff. Stir all these together until light, put in a pudding dish and bake 20 minutes, when cold cover with whipped cream and serve.
Dainty Dessert.
6 bananas, ¹⁄₂ can of pineapple or a fresh one, ¹⁄₂ lb. of grapes (seeded) 2 oranges, sweeten to suit the taste. Prepare gelatine as for fruit jelly, then put in a dish or mould a layer of chopped fruit of ¹⁄₂ inch thick while you require 1 inch of the gelatine jelly. When cold slice and serve with whipped cream with little bits of citron through the cream.