Recipe#25244

Title: BANANA PUFFS

  Recipe by Clara Hirschler, from the Sydney
  Telegraph-Mirror 16 th June, 1993. p45. Posted by Mark
  Herron.

2                    Ripe bananas
 100       g            Self-raising flour
     1/2   ts           Castor sugar
     1/2   ts           Lemon juice
 100       g            Castor sugar
   1       t            Cinnamon
   1       c            Oil for frying
                        Strawberry or rasberry jam
  Mash bananas with 100 g of castor sugar and lemon
  juice, add flour and mix to a thick paste.
  
  Heat oil in a small pan to smoking point, then turn
  heat to low. Use 2 teaspoons to push one teaspoon of
  dough into the oil, doing no more than 6 at a time.
  
  Turn puffs over and keep turning for 2 minutes. Remove
  with a slotted spoon, drain and roll in cinnamon and
  sugar.
  
  Serve with jam.