by RetroRuth | Mar 3, 2021 | Best & Worst, Desserts, Tested Recipes, The BEST
This week, we are going to make a dessert with bananas and prunes! This is Black and White Fluff! From Prunes For Epicures, 35 Intriguing Recipes - United Prune Growers of California, 1933 [cooked-sharing] Now, if you don’t recognize this book, it is the book I...
by RetroRuth | Oct 11, 2019 | Cocktail Party, Desserts
This week we are baking bananas and basting them in “juice”. Beer-filled juice. From Parties In Motion [cooked-sharing] So, not too much to this recipe, but yet I was very excited to see the result. Would we end up with a delicious banana dessert confection or just...
by RetroRuth | Feb 8, 2019 | Bread and Pastries
Alex had a ridiculous number of snow days in a row recently, so I haven’t got much recipe testing done. But I did have some bananas that were going black, so I decided a good snow day activity would be making banana bread! From How America Eats by Clementine...
by RetroRuth | Jan 25, 2019 | Main Dishes, Soup
It seems cruel to make someone test recipes while they are sick, and this week Tom had the flu. So I made him a nice bowl of hot chicken noodle soup. With Fried Bananas on top! This was one of those crazy topping ideas I got from a 1941 book entitled, Easy Ways To...
by RetroRuth | Mar 29, 2017 | Cookies & Bars, Desserts
This week Alex wanted to help with our tested recipe and I had a bunch of ripe bananas, so we decided to make a quick little dessert. These are Banana Marshmallow Squares! From Pillsbury Bake-Off Cook Book, 1972 - Contestant Mrs. Joe Hubbell [cooked-sharing] I’m not...
