Bananas Foster is an American dessert made from bananas, with a sauce made from butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, dark rum, and banana liqueur.[2] The butter, sugar and bananas are cooked, and then alcohol is added and ignited. The bananas and sauce are then often served over vanilla ice cream. Popular toppings also include whipped cream and different types of nuts (pecans, walnuts, etc.). The dish is often prepared tableside as a flambé.

Preparation

Bananas Foster is made with cooked bananas served in a butter, brown sugar and rum sauce. The caramelized liquor-based sauce is often prepared via flambé. It may be served with vanilla ice cream or used as a crêpe filling.[3] Cinnamon and nutmeg may be added as seasoning.[4]

History

The dish was created at the original location of Brennan's[2] in New Orleans, Louisiana, when the restaurant was still known as Owen Brennan's Vieux Carré.[5] In 1951, Ella Brennan and the restaurant's chef Paul Blangé worked together to modify a dish made by Ella's mother in the Brennan family home. At this time, New Orleans was a major hub for the import of bananas from South America. It was named for Richard Foster, the chairman of the New Orleans Crime Commission and a friend of restaurant owner Owen Brennan.[2] In New Orleans, popular lore credits the introduction of flambéeing bananas to a relative of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais of France.[6]

Bananas foster were among the most popular desserts of the 1960s in the US. Flambéed dishes like cherries jubilee and steak Diane were in vogue, served at restaurants where they were appreciated for the way they combined spectacle with liqueur in food.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About Bananas Foster". brennansneworleans.com. New Orleans: Brennan's. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "New Orleans Food: Bananas Foster". NewOrleansOnline.com. New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Bronski, Kelli; Bronski, Peter (2011). Artisanal Gluten-Free Cupcakes: 50 From-Scratch Recipes to Delight Every Cupcake Devotee-Gluten-Free and Otherwise. The Experiment. ISBN 978-1-61519-036-2.
  4. ↑ Manley, Stephanie (2010-04-01). CopyKat.com's Dining Out at Home Cookbook: Recipes for the Most Delicious Dishes from America's Most Popular Restaurants. Ulysses Press. ISBN 978-1-56975-832-8.
  5. ↑ Brennan, Ella; Martin, Ti Adelaide (2016). Miss Ella of Commander's Palace : "I don't want a restaurant where a jazz band can't come marching through" (First ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 978-1-4236-4255-8. OCLC 939911126.
  6. ↑ Harris, Jessica B (1989). Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa's Gifts to New World Cooking. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. p. 156. ISBN 0-689-11872-4.
  7. ↑ Lovegren, Sylvia (1995). Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads. New York: Macmillan. pp. 220–223. ISBN 978-0-02-575705-9.
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