Real Vermont Cooking

Makes 4 Servings INGREDIENTS 5 Tablespoons butter 4 Bananas cut in half lengthwise then halve 4 Tablespoons brown sugar ¼ cup of light rum 1 Teaspoon cinnamon 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream 3 Tablespoons banana liquor Directions: Melt butter in a skillet or flambé pan. Add sugar, cinnamon, and banana liquor and stir until sugar melts. Add bananas to sauce and sauté until bananas are soft and browned. Add rum and allow to get hot so that you can flambé (ignite) the pan. Liquor should ignite if hot and placed near a flame. Tip pan in circular motion. Place ice cream in 4 bowls topping with 4 pieces of banana. Spoon sauce over bananas and ice cream and serve immediately.

Ingredients 12 oz can peaches 1 tbsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 4 oz butter 4 oz sugar 2 oz peach schnapps or peach liquor Ice cream Melt the butter and add sugar, cook for 3 minutes. Strain peaches and add juice. simmer. Add cinnamon, nutmeg, and peaches. Simmer for 2 minutes. Add peach liquor and serve over ice cream.

Ingredients 2 c heavy cream 2 lbs. high quality bittersweet chocolate, small pieces 1/4 bourbon or other liquor Optional whipped cream for topping Heat the cream in a double boiler until warm to the touch. Add chocolate and stir constantly until smooth and melted. Refrigerate the ganache until it sets. Remove 3/4 of the ganache to a strong mixer. With the paddle attachment, slowly beat the mixture while adding the bourbon. As the mixture whips, it begins to soften. Stop often and scrape. As the mixture softens, increase the speed to medium. The mixture will lighten, then begin to thicken again. Stop at this point to avoid a grainy texture. Press the mixture into a film lined 9″ cake pan and remove any air at the corners. Refrigerate about an hour. Invert the cake onto a serving dish, rewarm (don’t get it hot, it will melt the cake) the remaining ganache and drip it over the cake. Refrigerate again for service.

Ingredients 1 c. brown sugar (light or dark) 1/4 # butter 2 bananas 2 oz. banana liquor 1 oz. rum 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 tsp cinnamon or 1 cinnamon stick 1 oz. Rum (if it is to be flambéed) Vanilla ice cream Cook the sugar and butter for about 5 minutes. Add bananas, simmer another 2 minutes, add cinnamon, vanilla flavoring, banana liquor and 1 oz. rum, simmer another 2 minutes. If flambéing, pull the sauté pan back and super heat the front edge of the pan, add another 1 oz rum with a jigger,(do not pour out of the bottle!!) and light with a long match, or roll the flame over the edge of the pan if using gas, jiggling the sauté pan will increase the flame. Serve over vanilla ice cream.