How to prevent bananas in cake filling from going brown?

Bonnie Howard

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Jun 8, 1992, 11:01:44 AM6/8/92

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>Hello, O wise cooking gurus.

>I've agreed to bake a cake in which the requester wants banana slices
>in a pudding-type filling between the layers. My question is, if I
>make the cake the day before and just slice up the bananas and mix them
>with the filling before spreading, will they become icky and brown by
>the time the cake is eaten? If so, is there any way to prevent that?

Hi Susan -

I think that if you soak your bananas in lemon juice and then in the
filling it will keep them from turning brown... Good Luck...
>Thanks!
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Eddie Van Huffel

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Jun 8, 1992, 10:17:34 AM6/8/92

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co...@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:

> Hello, O wise cooking gurus.
>
> I've agreed to bake a cake in which the requester wants banana slices
> in a pudding-type filling between the layers. My question is, if I
> make the cake the day before and just slice up the bananas and mix them
> with the filling before spreading, will they become icky and brown by
> the time the cake is eaten? If so, is there any way to prevent that?
>

> Thanks!
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> co...@unix.sri.com
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Usually I sprinkle Lemon Juice over the bananas to keep them from going
brown in other applications. I feel that it might work for you.
Hope that this helps. 8^)

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JOEL D. OFFENBERG (301) 286-5801

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Jun 8, 1992, 2:48:00 PM6/8/92

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In article <Z8Z2LB...@railnet.nshore.ORG>, ed...@railnet.nshore.ORG (Eddie Van Huffel) writes...

>co...@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:
>
>> Hello, O wise cooking gurus.
>>
>> I've agreed to bake a cake in which the requester wants banana slices
>> in a pudding-type filling between the layers. My question is, if I
>> make the cake the day before and just slice up the bananas and mix them
>> with the filling before spreading, will they become icky and brown by
>> the time the cake is eaten? If so, is there any way to prevent that?
>>
>

>Usually I sprinkle Lemon Juice over the bananas to keep them from going
>brown in other applications. I feel that it might work for you.
>Hope that this helps. 8^)
>

I'm not sure about bananas per se, but I know that lemon juice keeps apples
from going brown. Assuming that this is approximately the same reaction,
lemon juice might work for the cake as well.

good luck...I'd be interested in hearing what you do and how it works...

Joel (offe...@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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"Another clear case of too many scientists and not enough hunchbacks" -
-from "The Far Side"

Susan Cole

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Jun 8, 1992, 5:43:02 PM6/8/92

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In answer to my question on how to keep banana slices that I want to put
between layers of a cake from going brown, the universal suggestion in both
e-mail and postings seems to be "put lemon juice on them beforehand". Some
say soak, some say sprinkle. So that (probably sprinkling, since I don't
want to make banana-lemon cake) is what I'll try.

Thanks to all who replied!

- Susan

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