The Girl Who Escaped From Zanzibar

Ingredients: ( serves 8) 16 large bananas 8 tablespoons orange or lemon juice 8 tablespoons rum 6oz butter or coconut oil 6oz brown sugar Cinnamon for sprinkling Grated ginger 1. Skin the bananas and halve lengthways, laying them on a baking dish or in individual oven-proof dishes as we have used here 2. Cover with the juice and rum 3. Cube the butter and distribute evenly over the fruit. We added a little grated ginger. 4. Sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon on top 5. Cover and bake for 10 minutes in a hot oven until sweet, sticky and tantalizing. 6. Uncover and keep warm until demanded. Serve with love. And pancakes.

1. Put on a dark overall as mango juice will stain cotton and spoil white cloth forever. Sterilise the chutney jars: 2. Wash 10 jam jars and their lids. Make sure they are sparkling clean. Line up the jars, add a teaspoon to each one and add boiled water. Let stand for two minutes. Discard water and place jars on their sides in the bottom oven. Ideally this should be at a temperature of 212º Fahrenheit to sterilize them. Take great care, as if the range is too hot the jars will crack. Once the jars have been at this temperature for 10 minutes, turn the oven off, and leave them in the oven to slowly cool. 3. Boil the lids and a metal funnel with a broad neck. If you do not do this the chutney will go mouldy, which is unpleasant. Make the chutney: First open the kitchen windows or they will steam up. Making chutney is hot work. 1. Skin and slice eight mangos, placing chunks in a large bowl. The pip and peel can be given to your chickens. Slices need to b...

First ensure you have a nice hot oven and a clock to hand. Spread the gratings of a courgette over a plate and sprinkle with sea salt. Find four small dishes. These must be ones designed not to break in a hot oven. Take a little oil and use clean fingers to make this cover the inside of the dishes thinly. Not too much. Place a metal grater on a plate and grate a cupful of hard cheese. Find another plate and grate a cup of stale bread breadcrumbs. This is a good way of using bread that has gone hard but take care not to avoid any green mouldy bits. It doesn’t matter if the crumbs mix with the cheese a bit. Separate 3 fresh hens’ eggs. Take care to do this one by one in case you encounter a fertilized egg as you cannot cook with such a thing. Ensure no pieces of eggshell get in the opened egg. Beat the whites of the eggs in a copper bowl until they make little mountain peaks. You can use the same implement to aerate the yokes in a different bowl. Do not try this the other ...