Recipe: Flaming Bananas

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Description/Notes:

Dim the lights before setting alight this rum-bustious party-piece

Ingredients:

4 Bananas, peeled and sliced lengthways

juice of 2 lemons

1 oz. (25g) butter, cut into small pieces

2 oz. (50g) brown sugar

2 fl. oz. (50ml.) rum

Cooking Instructions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350F, Gas Mark 4, 180C
2. Put the bananas in a shallow ovenproof dish
3. Dot over the butter and sprinkle over the sugar and lemon juice
4. Bake for 20 minutes in pre-heated oven, basting occasionally
5. Heat the rum until hot but not boiling, pour over the bananas and ignite
6. Serve as soon as the flames die away