Be Bold With Bananas

By: 
Fruit Distributors Ltd & the Australian Banana Growers Council circa 1975

This is possibly the ugliest cookbook ever published.

Thirty full page, full colour photos (well, that really ugly yellow/brown palette that passed for colour in the 70's) of some of the most unappetizing dishes ever created by an advertising executive, are interspersed with even more worrying recipes that presumably didn't photograph well!
Whet your appetite with one of the following…

 

  • Banana Sausages
  • Bananas and Ham
  • Curried Meat with Banana (Choose between Chuck Steak or Chicken)
  • Potato and Banana Nests
  • Banana Duck in Orange Sauce
  • Banana Paella
  • Banana-Condensed Milk Tart
  • Banana Foam
  • Poor Mans Banana Pudding
  • Banana and Egg Salad
  • Spanish Stew (with, you guessed it, Bananas)

And lastly, and most frighteningly

Be Bold With Bananas - Banana Surprise

- Banana Candles
There should be laws against food like this…

The good news is that this is a fairly common book in the southern hemisphere, so, if you'd like a copy go to the

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