Bananas Foster

Name: Bananas Foster
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1/2 cup packed (3 1/2 ounces), dark brown sugar; 1/4 cup plus 2 teaspoons gold, rum; 2 tablespoons, water; 1 , cinnamon stick; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 3 , ripe bananas, peeled, halved crosswise, then halved lengthwise; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces; 1 teaspoon, lemon juice; Vanilla, ice cream

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2016

Desserts or Baked Goods

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We wanted to enjoy this New Orleans classic at home, but would that mean singeing our eyebrows?

SERVES4

TIME20 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This iconic New Orleans dessert is usually served flambéed at tableside. To adapt this recipe for the home cook, we inverted the usual order of steps and opted to skip the flambé. Most recipes start by first combining butter and sugar, saut...

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