This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Select a small banana; peel, scrape off the coarse threads and cut in halves, lengthwise. Set above the banana two mounds of vanilla ice cream, pipe a little whipped cream over each mound sprinkle with grated sweet chocolate and set a maraschino cherry in the centre.
Prepare the banana as above; set a mound of ice cream on each end of the banana; let one be of vanilla and the other of caramel ice cream; pipe whipped cream on the banana between the mounds of ice cream, pour caramel syrup over the vanilla cream and chocolate syrup over the caramel cream; sprinkle with chopped almonds, browned in the oven, and set a cherry on the top of the whipped cream.
 
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